canalplus / rx-player

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https://developers.canal-plus.com/rx-player/
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Fix adding RxPlayer to the global scope for bundles #1542

Closed peaBerberian closed 2 months ago

peaBerberian commented 2 months ago

I recently noticed while doing quick-and-dirty RxPlayer tests that the bundles we attach to each release note (and publish to npm, even though that's not what is used when importing the RxPlayer) was not exposing the RxPlayer to window - which I suppose is how most people would be interacting with that bundle.

It seems that the v4.1.0 release note for example has such a bundle right now (maybe I'll update it there, though bundles published to npm cannot be retroactively updated).

The issue might have appeared when we removed the webpack dependency, there was an option in our bundling script to expose the RxPlayer but it was never set - thus the fix here is pretty simple.

PS: On that matter, I'm not sure publishing bundles to npm serve a role, as people relying on the npm registry are most likely relying on import/require statements and do not just manually copy one of the bundle files that would be downloaded after calling npm install / yarn. Bundles would still be accessible through release notes. Though it seems many people still rely on bundles (for simplicity reasons?), so maybe people actually DO that? (no idea how they get that bundle here)