Ability to manually confirm a user's email address

[JacobThaDev]

Someone mentioned not recieving emails for validation, and manual approval does not exist. Also needs ability to see members online, and possibly a public directory. Basically just needs full user management

[tobyzerner]

We'll make this ticket for implementing manual approval. The rest is covered in #283.

[renyuneyun]

So I've found the api/backend already contains such ability - just need to send PATCH request with data
{ 'data': {'attributes': { 'isActivated':'true' } } } (together with admin token) to FORUM_URL/api/users/:userid.

I tried to modify 'js/forum/src/components/EditUserModal.js' to add a 'activated' checkbox under the 'Email' section, but I have no idea how to reload the js in order to take effect.
In the beginning I though I need to follow https://github.com/flarum/flarum/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md to recompile the js, but there is still no effect (or maybe I did something wrong).

How can I see the result after changing the js files?

By the way, what's the relationship between Mithril and ES6?

[dav-is]

By the way, what's the relationship between Mithril and ES6?

Mithril at the time being doesn't use ES6. Flarum has ES6 classes to make use of mithril. Then all the rest of Flarum builds on these classes. Does this make sense?

[renyuneyun]

Yes.
So the transpiling step is to change ES6 to a lower version (e.g. ES5?) to let it run correctly on current browsers/tools/environment?

Wouldn't the modified JS be then downloaded by the browser (after refreshing the page) after transpiling? Or are there other steps needed?

[renyuneyun]

OK, I found that if I set 'debug' => true in config.php, the changes will take effect.
But... Why?

[dav-is]

There should a compile.sh that you'll want to run in the core files. Be sure not to commit the compiled app.js files.