Acccess to solid-ui from a CDN

[bourgeoa]

@jeff-zucker

Access to npm published version is from lib/index.js
The file contains :

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if (typeof window !== 'undefined') {
  ;
  window.UI = {
    authn: _solidLogic.authn,
    store: _solidLogic.store,
    ns: ns,
    rdf: rdf,
    acl: _index.acl,
    aclControl: _index.aclControl,
    create: _index2.create,
    createTypes: createTypes,
    dom: dom,
    icons: _iconBase.icons,
    language: language,
    log: log,
    login: login,
    matrix: _index3.matrix,
    media: _index4.media,
    messageArea: _messageArea.messageArea,
    infiniteMessageArea: _infinite.infiniteMessageArea,
    pad: pad,
    participation: participation,
    preferences: preferences,
    style: style,
    table: _table.renderTableViewPane,
    tabs: tabs,
    utils: utils,
    widgets: widgets,
    versionInfo: _versionInfo.versionInfo,
    initHeader: _header.initHeader,
    initFooter: _footer.initFooter
  }; // Simpler access by non-node scripts
}
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Is it enough to use in a script tag ?
lib is not accessible from github ? is it a must ?

[jeff-zucker]

No, lib/index.js is not a browser- accessible library. If I put that in a script tag, it barfs on the require statements. The only thing, as far as I know that works in a browser from a CDN is dist/main.js.

[jeff-zucker]

So my suggestion would be to build it at the same time you build mashlib and place it also in https://solidcommunity.net/main.js so it can be accessed the same way mashlib is for those apps (like many I am working on) which do not need panes.

[jeff-zucker]

To document why this is useful - I am working on a variety of apps that use the solid-ui-components framework but do not need the panes that come with mashlib. If we want to make solid-ui and SolidOS available to developers, this would greatly simplify things. Additionally, it should be minified because currently solid-ui takes a long time to load.

[jeff-zucker]

Or, instead of serving from solidcommunity.net, f the dist folder is built and included in the npm, then I believe npmjs will automatically create a CDN for it. Or the same for github.

[timea-solid]

We could publish solid-ui on github as we do do mashlib on the gh-pages branch (see: https://github.com/SolidOS/mashlib/tree/gh-pages)

[timea-solid]

It is for now here: http://solidos.github.io/solid-ui/dist/main.js -> we need to change its name to solid-ui.js before we make use of it.

[timea-solid]

We discussed that http://solidos.github.io/solid-ui/dist/main.js is fine as is.

[bourgeoa]

I propose we add :

• dist/main.js in github
• and something in the README.md

[jeff-zucker]

@bourgeoa - it is already there and @timea already documented in the Solid-ui readme.

[jeff-zucker]

https://solidos.github.io/solid-ui/dist/main.js

[bourgeoa]

Could be added that dist/main.js being published in npm it is available in CDN like jsdelivr