Split JS Minification on Client/Board and ACP

[Nicolas]

Hello guys,

Would be nice to have 2 different concatenated/minified scripts for board and ACP.
Now it's single nodebb.min.js.
I propose split responsibilities, so we will have nodebb.min.js and acp.min.js

@baris @julian @psychobunny what do you think on it?

[baris]

It's a good idea, it would also reduce the size of nodebb.min.js

[psychobunny]

I just looked it up, there is no ACP related code in nodebb.min.js, but it is also included on the ACP side for libs like ajaxify

[Nicolas]

@psychobunny Plugins will grow. And adding JS related only for UX in ACP, isn't great

[psychobunny]

oh I see, you're looking to improve the ACP's performance. yeah that makes sense. I think all ACP needs is app, ajaxify, translator, and templates.js

[Nicolas]

Give ability to specify in plugin.json, where my js should be concatenated
In my case, 95% of client JS is related to ACP, but It's part of nodebb.min.js...

[psychobunny]

Gotcha, I totally forgot about the fact that nodebb.min.js includes ACP plugin scripts as well. In that case I take my first comment back - even on this community it should cut down maybe 10-20kb worth

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/3134

[julian]

Nicolas, I'm assuming you don't want to put your js inline in the template?

For my plugins (I have my own fork of quickstart that I use), I actually make them require.js modules, so they are loaded on-demand: https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-quickstart/blob/julian/static/lib/admin.js

But looking back, this might also minified, so...