This required the following changes in the Gulpfile:
- Defining a series of tasks is no longer done with arrays, but with the
`gulp.series` function. The `web` target is refactored to use a
smaller number of tasks to prevent tasks from running multiple times.
- Getting all tasks must now be done through the task registry.
- Tasks that don't return anything must call `done` upon completion.
Moreover, this upgrade allows us to use the latest Node.js on Travis CI
again.
This patch does three things:
- Updates the `gulp unittestcli` command, using `gulp lint` as a guide, such that it can be run locally on Windows without any modifications.
- Updates the `gulp lib` command to support disabling of Babel through the `SKIP_BABEL` environment variable. Note that all other build targets support this mode, and there's no good reason for `lib` to be any different here.
- Updates the `npm test` command, used in Node.js/Travis, to test the code as-is test. Since modern Node.js versions seem to have no problems with ES6 compatible code in general, we should just test the source code as-is instead (similar to the tests running on the regular bots).
This should have been part of the previous commit that updated the
Wintersmith dependency. Markdown support is no longer included in Pug
itself and should be done by a transformer instead.
Update configuration to work with Babel 7
Explicitly require globals - eslint-plugin-mozilla needs it, but doesn't require it on its own.
Fix Regexp to match Babel 7's inlined _interopRequireDefault
For proof-of-concept, this patch converts a couple of `Promise` returning methods to use `async` instead.
Please note that the `generic` build, based on this patch, has been successfully testing in IE11 (i.e. the viewer loads and nothing is obviously broken).
Being able to use modern JavaScript features like `async`/`await` is a huge plus, but there's one (obvious) side-effect: The size of the built files will increase slightly (unless `SKIP_BABEL == true`). That's unavoidable, but seems like a small price to pay in the grand scheme of things.
Finally, note that the `chromium` build target was changed to no longer skip Babel translation, since the Chrome extension still supports version `49` of the browser (where native `async` support isn't available).
SystemJS version 0.21.0 works, but version 0.21.1 breaks with various
`Unable to load transpiler to transpile` errors. Pin the version to
0.21.0 for now to avoid this issue.
Jasmine had a major version bump and required a few minor changes in our
booting code. Most notably, using `pending` in a `describe` block is no
longer supported, so we can only return early there. On the positive
side, the unit tests now run in a random order by default, which
eliminates any dependencies between unit tests.
Note that upgrading to Webpack 4 is out of scope for this patch since
the bots cannot work well with the newly generated bundles (both
browsers on both bots do not react within 120 seconds). Webpack 4 is not
faster for us than Webpack 3, so for now there is no need to upgrade.
Since multiple empty lines is virtually unused in the code-base, and the few cases that do exist look like "typos", let's enforce greater consistency here; please see https://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-multiple-empty-lines.
The `gulp-util` module is now deprecated and authors are asked to stop
using it (refer to https://medium.com/gulpjs/gulp-util-ca3b1f9f9ac5 for
more information).
PDF.js does not rely on it that much, fortunately, so it's relatively
easy for us to remove the dependency. This patch does that by making the
following changes:
- Require `gulp-zip` version 4.1.0 or higher since they already removed
their `gulp-util` dependency in that version.
- Replace `gulp-util.log` with the `fancylog` module as recommended in
the article above.
- Replace `gulp-util.File` with the `Vinyl` module as recommended in the
article above.
The only change I had to make for Vinyl is removing the `base` and `cwd`
lines since they may not be empty strings anymore. This way we fall back
to the defaults Vinyl provides, which for us doesn't matter since we
move the file afterwards anyway. Moreover, I used `vfs` for `vinyl-fs`
in the `Gulpfile` to avoid confusion with `vinyl` (which is also how the
documentation names the variable).
This is all we can do on our side; the other modules that still use
`gulp-util` must be updated upstream.
To support this, the following changes have to be made as well:
- Ignore `package-lock.json` since NPM creates it, but we should not
have it in the repository.
- Switch from `babel-preset-es2015` to `babel-preset-env` to resolve
the deprecation warning in the test logs. The latter is more recent
and flexible, but should be the same functionality-wise.
- `transform` now needs to have the `utf-8` encoding option provided.
If not given, it will call the callback with a `Buffer` object,
which results in an unhandled promise rejection since what is
returned from the callback is a string, not a `Buffer`.
By updating to uglify-es, rather than uglify-js, the minifier *itself* now supports ES6 code. This means that it's now possible to minify code built with `PDFJS_NEXT = true` set, i.e. with Babel transpilation disabled, which wasn't the case previously.
Note that uglify-es is based on the API of uglify-js v3, which differs from the one that we previously used.
Of particular importance is the fact that it's no longer possible to provide a path to a file for minification, but one must instead directly provide the source of the file.
For more information, please see https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/tree/harmony
