Spent quite a while looking into the best solution here and ended up going with three separate classes. Thanks to @Luceos for the PR that got this rolling (#518). My reasoning is:
- The task of routing and URL generation is independent for each section of the app. Take Flarum\Api\Users\IndexAction for example. I don't want to generate a URL to a Flarum route... I specifically want to generate a URL to an API route. So there should be a class with that specific responsibility.
- In fact, each URL generator is slightly different, because we need to add a certain prefix to the start (e.g. /api)
- This also allows us to get rid of the "flarum.api" prefix on each route's name.
- It's still DRY, because they all extend a base class.
At the same time, I could see no reason this needed to be "interfaced", so all of the classes are concrete.
Goes a long way to fixing #123 - still just a few places left remaining with hardcoded URLs.
And redirect to the "no JS" mode if the JS app crashes on boot.
ClientView/ClientAction is all a bit of a mess and will need to be
radically cleaned up at some point...
Only preloading data for basic requests w/o query params, at least for
the moment - if we have to preload for something like
/?q=test&sort=newest, we end up having to duplicate a whole lot of
logic between JS/PHP.
- Extract shared Ember components into a “flarum-common” ember-cli
addon. This can be used by both the forum + admin Ember apps, keeping
things DRY
- Move LESS styles into their own top-level directory and do a similar
thing (extract common styles)
- Add LESS/JS compilation and versioning to PHP (AssetManager)
- Set up admin entry point
(Theoretical) upgrade instructions:
- Delete everything in [app_root]/public
- Set up tooling in forum/admin Ember apps (npm install/update, bower
install/update) and then build them (ember build)
- php artisan vendor:publish
- Upgrade flarum/flarum repo (slight change in a config file)
- If you need to trigger a LESS/JS recompile, delete the .css/.js files
in [app_root]/public/flarum. I set up LiveReload to do this for me when
I change files in less/ or ember/
Todo:
- Start writing admin app!
- Remove bootstrap/font-awesome from repo and instead depend on their
composer packages? Maybe? (Bower is not an option here)
