Webpack as direct dependency

[jankaszel]

Right now, Webpack has to be installed globally via npm i -g webpack webpack-cli. This could be circumvented by installing it directly via as devDependency and creating an npm script. With that, we could reduce additional steps required during setup and pin webpack to particular versions for ensuring consistency.

That would entail adapting the sbt build scripts (for example, running npm run dev instead of webpack --watch).

I'm happy to submit a PR for that, but I'm unsure what effects that could have on existing installations. With Docker it's easy to implement, but what about Vagrant, for instance?

[rsimon]

I agree, and would be inclined to add that. Feel free to make the pull request.

One comment though: the Webpack stuff was only a sort-of intermediate phase, as far as the client-side code of Recogito is concerned.

• The majority of the code is old-school jQuery, using RequireJS for module loading (and the official Play/Require integration)
• All the new parts of the UI are now React projects in separate repositories:
  • recogito2-workspace-frontend for the document workspace and public profile page
  • recogito2-admin-frontend for the administration interface
  • recogito2-ui-components for various embedd components elsewhere (currently: the annotation stats page elements)
• The only component currently built via the webpack build in this repository is the Bulk Annotation UI, which is embedded in the plaintext & TEI annotation pages.

[jankaszel]

Alright, I see! I just noticed that the external dependency could be resolved quite easily with this. I'll create the PR soon 👍