From 9196e3fc5f648fd6efefaf70c8b4918986d9c070 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Hugo=20H=C3=B6rnquist?= Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 02:40:15 +0100 Subject: Add comment about why browserify. --- doc/ref/javascript.texi | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/ref/javascript.texi b/doc/ref/javascript.texi index 25ac4f00..bbe1cb25 100644 --- a/doc/ref/javascript.texi +++ b/doc/ref/javascript.texi @@ -37,3 +37,12 @@ All elements are initialized in elements.ts @include javascript/components/vevent_description.texi @include javascript/components/vevent_dl.texi @include javascript/components/vevent_edit.texi + +@section About our buildsystem +Currently (almost) everything is written in Typescript, and bundled +through browserify. Ideally we would, for debug builds, export the +single transplied Javascript files, but Chromium Chromium lacks +support for modules on XHTML documents +@url{https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=717643}. +However, seeing as the issue still gets frequent updates as of 2021 I +believe that this might one day get resolved. -- cgit v1.2.3