11 Mar
2016
11 Mar
'16
9:45 a.m.
Hi Debajit,
xwiki-min.js is not just a minified version of xwiki.js, it also "bundles"
a couple of JavaScript files that are needed on most of the pages. See
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwi…
. We did this in order to reduce the number of JavaScript files loaded on
every page. So xwiki-min.js is created at build time. You can obtain it
yourself by building xwiki-platform-web. For development it's easier if you
use debug=true in the page URL query string which will load the individual
files instead of xwiki-min.js. This allows you to overwrite such a file
with the unminified version and to quickly test the changes or debug them
if you want.
Now, unless there's really no other way (e.g. using JavaScript Skin
Extensions), modifying the resources from the XWiki WAR is not recommended
because it complicates the upgrade.
Hope this helps,
Marius
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Debajit Work <debajit.work(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi
I am making a small change to the UI for the search suggestions, for which
I need to update or override xwiki-min.js
I would like to understand — how is xwiki.js minified to xwiki-min.js? It
looks to me like this is done statically (I went through the Skin extension
documentation
<
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Skin+Extension+Plugin
,
but when exactly the minification happens
is still unclear to me)
If I want to update xwiki.js or xwiki-min.js, what is the best way to do
it? Previously I was adding another JS file called xwiki_overrides.js and
including that in "javascript.vm" which added additional listeners, but I
that is not very efficient for my current needs. Any pointers are welcome.
Thanks in advance
Debajit
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