The main nodejs flavor is "npm", which is to be used to
lint/test and the publication of an official npm
package -- and by design it has dependencies on mocha,
eslint, etc.
A new flavor "dig" has been created with minimal
dependencies and which purpose is to easily allow to
write specialized code to investigate local code changes
in uBO -- and it's not meant for publication.
Consequently, "make nodejs" has been replaced with
"make npm", and a new "dig" target has been added to the
makefile, to be used for instrumenting local code changes
for investigation purpose.
The code exported to nodejs package was revised to use modern
JavaScript syntax. A few issues were fixed at the same time.
The exported classes are:
- DynamicHostRuleFiltering
- DynamicURLRuleFiltering
- DynamicSwitchRuleFiltering
These related to the content the of "My rules" pane in the
uBlock Origin extension.
Related issue:
- https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1664
The changes are enough to fulfill the related issue.
A new platform has been added in order to allow for building
a NodeJS package. From the root of the project:
./tools/make-nodejs
This will create new uBlock0.nodejs directory in the
./dist/build directory, which is a valid NodeJS package.
From the root of the package, you can try:
node test
This will instantiate a static network filtering engine,
populated by easylist and easyprivacy, which can be used
to match network requests by filling the appropriate
filtering context object.
The test.js file contains code which is typical example
of usage of the package.
Limitations: the NodeJS package can't execute the WASM
versions of the code since the WASM module requires the
use of fetch(), which is not available in NodeJS.
This is a first pass at modularizing the codebase, and
while at it a number of opportunistic small rewrites
have also been made.
This commit requires the minimum supported version for
Chromium and Firefox be raised to 61 and 60 respectively.
Though Firefox shares a lot of WebExtensions code with Chromium,
these platforms have their own specific code paths, for various
reasons.
The reorganization here makes it clear that Chromium platform is
just one flavor of WebExtensions, and as such all Chromium-specific
code paths should no longer be automatically pulled by other
platforms where these code paths are not needed.
Given that the filepath of many files changed, here is the
parent commit to quickly browse back to the previous directory
layout:
ec7db30b2f
The pseudo user styles code served only browsers based
on Chromium 65 and earlier -- Chromium 66 supports
native user styles and was first released more than two
years ago.
In Chromium-based browsers, the pseudo user styles code
is being unconditionally injected in every page/frame
just in case the browser is version 65 or earlier.
Removing pseudo user styles reduce uBO's main content
script in Chromium-based browsers by more than 20K.
Related thread:
- https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues/348#issuecomment-653646507