Generic loading of moazik-ext-* stuff

[benediktvaldez]

My situation is that node_modules is not located in the same folder as my code, but your built-in gulp build assumes otherwise (understandably I suppose)

Ideally we could find a way to load all modules that start with mozaik-ext- regardless of where node_modules is located

One example

Not sure how we could solve this - just throwing this out there for now 😸

[benediktvaldez]

One way I guess would be to rewrite everything with webpack/css-modules, and have the components come with their styles and everything..

[plouc]

Yep,I totally agree with the webpack switch, it could be better, but moving to webpack requires a lot of work, there's already an issue on this, it seems someone has started something :).

[plouc]

A fix should be to try to find the node modules directory and use its path instead of the hardcoded one.

[benediktvaldez]

One suggestion was to look for package.json, and go up a level if you don't find one, until you find one (with some limitations I guess) - but feels hacky - but this kind of stuff usually does 😄

[plouc]

npm root does this, perhaps there's a solution in its source code

[kurtextrem]

What is the best way to start developing extensions? For example if I move my extension into the node_modules folder of my dashboard, it somehow doesn't listen to mixins.
More specific: I add the ApiConsumerMixin to my ext, but componentDidMount is never called on it (even though I can see it on my dashboard); none of the functions of the mixins is called anywhen.
Somehow those are called when using real node modules though.

[plouc]

@kurtextrem, this problem often occurs when you have several modules duplicated, locally, I use npm link (with npm 3+) with latest mozaik version.

[kurtextrem]

@plouc I have a funny other issue now:
info: Client #1 connected info: Setting timer for '....' info: removing interval for '....' info: Client #1 disconnected
And then more than one reconnect, even though only one window is open... which leads to Client #235 connected + disconnected after a few seconds.
Any ideas? I've tried reinstalling all node modules already.

[plouc]

@kurtextrem, sorry for the late reply, can you share your package.json, config.js, app and server entry points ?

[plouc]

@benediktvaldez, Mozaïk v2 now uses webpack, see installation instructions here.

[plouc]

I close this issue as there's not much activity and the original issue should be solved with webpack.