Produce development version to work with cylc-jupyterhub

[kinow]

Now cylc-jupyterhub supports pointing to any directory with an index.html to serve as the Web GUI for the Cylc UI Server.

It would be good to have a better way to code cylc-web and see the results with and without the Hub. Preferably something quick, as generating production files takes some 20 seconds that could be better spent doing something else.

[kinow]

Current overview of modules in the application.

Also adding the task to produce this report.

Later we may have to review the libraries we are using and try to reduce some. Especially after adding the suite graph, which may impact the project performance.

asset size limit: The following asset(s) exceed the recommended size limit (244 KiB).
This can impact web performance.
Assets: 
  fonts/materialdesignicons-webfont.d15c1216.ttf (407 KiB)
  fonts/materialdesignicons-webfont.abb4e749.eot (407 KiB)
  img/materialdesignicons-webfont.ae4dbede.svg (3.05 MiB)
  img/do.88a82fcc.svg (443 KiB)
  img/do.704fd2a9.svg (456 KiB)
  css/chunk-vendors.c9a2df19.css (408 KiB)
  js/chunk-vendors.993984f7.js (1.01 MiB)

 warning  

entrypoint size limit: The following entrypoint(s) combined asset size exceeds the recommended limit (244 KiB). This can impact web performance.
Entrypoints:
  app (1.47 MiB)
      css/chunk-vendors.c9a2df19.css
      js/chunk-vendors.993984f7.js
      css/app.852df6eb.css
      js/app.90b7a101.js

[kinow]

One alternative would be running the WebPack Proxy https://vuejs-templates.github.io/webpack/proxy.html, which is normally used to send the requests back to a running instance of the backend.

The issue is that we have Tornado handling authentication, cookie handling, and loading a static index.html. 🤔

[kinow]

This option might work: vuejs/vue-cli#1317

If we are able to produce an index.html with the watch feature, that would be a good development setup IMO.

[kinow]

Well, apparently that works. Takes about 2 seconds, and produces a development version of index.html. Whew. Thought would have to dig into webpack, vue, and start trying to work on it from scratch :-) ❤️ OpenSource

[hjoliver]

Sounds cool, might get you to explain this to me to tomorrow!

[kinow]

Sure thing! I'm hoping to have written a unit test, and then the #33 issue will be pretty much done (finally!)