[WIP] Debowerify

[Pamplemousse]

bower is deprecated to the point that cryptpad is being dropped in places because of its maintenance burden (see #295).

This PR aims at removing the need for bower for building cryptpad.

• Naively migrate libraries to use npm and custom build script
  • in development environment
  • run tests
  • for production build
• Use a JS bundler instead of npm + custom copies: relates to Use a JS bundler #881

It's my first time contributing to cryptpad, and I am not familiar with the codebase, so I will appreciate any feedback and help for testing 🙂, thanks!

Relates to:

• Missing on npmjs.com chainpad-listmap#3
• https://forum.cryptpad.org/d/75-missing-dependency-secure-fabricjs-in-wwwwhiteboardexportjs

[Pamplemousse]

I have been trying to make it work in a development environment. Seems that I am mostly there, but there is still something trying to be loaded from www/bower_components/ in the index page, and I can't figure out why...

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" async="" data-requirecontext="_" data-requiremodule="/bower_components/tweetnacl/nacl-fast.min.js" src="/bower_components/tweetnacl/nacl-fast.min.js?ver=5.2.1-1673098798860-1673098953727"></script>

[yflory]

I was able to "fix" this bower_components call from the index page here: https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad/blob/debowerify/www/common/requireconfig.js#L31 It was coming from the chainpad-crypto library.

I've also published chainpad-listmap to npm and fix the fabricjs issue on our main branch.

Otherwise the PR looks good but still needs further testing on our side

[Pamplemousse]

I was able to "fix" this bower_components call from the index page here: debowerify/www/common/requireconfig.js#L31 It was coming from the chainpad-crypto library.

Thanks!
Could it be a single instance of a more recurrent issue though? Every library cryptpad uses could have bower dependencies that would introduce a similar problem, right?
Is it OK given that the distribution / loading of dependencies should be revamped to use a JS bundler eventually?