This moves the babel and postcss configs into the webpack config for ease of maintenance (and because we need variations of them). The typescript config is left outside the webpack config for IDEs to pick it up.
it was missing some plugins which firstly means we're using inconsistent
js between projects, but also causes builds to fail due to our unique
build system.
It turns out that the assertion made in
https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/pull/4565 about `async` functions
returning bluebird promises was only correct when babel used an inline version
of the `asyncToGenerator` helper; in react-sdk we are using
`babel-transform-runtime` which means that we use a separate
`babel-runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator`, which returns a native (or core-js)
Promise.
This meant that we were still in the situation where some methods returned
native Promises, and some bluebird ones, which is exactly the situation I
wanted to resolve by switching to bluebird in the first place: in short,
unless/until we get rid of all code which assumes Promises have a `done` method
etc, we need to make sure that everything returns a bluebird promise.
(Aside: there was debate over whether in the long term we should be trying to
wean ourselves off bluebird promises by assuming all promises are native. The
conclusion was that the complexity hit involved in doing so outweighed any
benefit of a potential future migration away from bluebird).
Also sort out regenerator runtime as it turns out importing
babel-polyfill in your code is insufficient if using webpack
because it's imported too late, so use both that and
regenerator-runtime. Sigh.
Also sort out regenerator runtime as it turns out importing
babel-polyfill in your code is insufficient if using webpack
because it's imported too late, so use both that and
regenerator-runtime. Sigh.
Travis Ralston