build: use esbuild to bundle the web app (#6280)

.github/workflows/webapp.yml

@@ -111,9 +111,12 @@ jobs:
           echo
           echo Please undo your changes to these files:
           git diff --exit-code --name-only --merge-base "origin/$GITHUB_BASE_REF" -- \
+              web/public_html/transmission-app.css \
+              web/public_html/transmission-app.css.LEGAL.txt \
+              web/public_html/transmission-app.css.map \
               web/public_html/transmission-app.js \
-              web/public_html/transmission-app.js.map \
+              web/public_html/transmission-app.js.LEGAL.txt \
-              web/public_html/transmission-app.js.LICENSE.txt
+              web/public_html/transmission-app.js.map
 
   update-generated-files:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest

web/.eslintrc.js

@@ -9,10 +9,6 @@ module.exports = {
     "plugin:sonarjs/recommended",
     "plugin:unicorn/recommended"
   ],
-  "parser": "@babel/eslint-parser",
-  "parserOptions": {
-    "sourceType": "module"
-  },
   "plugins": [
     "sonarjs",
     "unicorn"

web/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -53,18 +53,20 @@ set(WEB_IMAGES
 
 add_custom_command(
     OUTPUT
+        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.css"
+        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.css.LEGAL.txt"
+        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.css.map"
         "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.js"
+        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.js.LEGAL.txt"
         "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.js.map"
-        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.js.LICENSE.txt"
     WORKING_DIRECTORY
         "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}"
     COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E copy
-        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/babel.config.js"
+        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/esbuild.mjs"
         "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/package-lock.json"
         "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/package.json"
         "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/prettier.config.js"
         "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/stylelint.config.js"
-        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/webpack.config.js"
         "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}"
     COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E copy_directory
         "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/assets" "assets"
@@ -82,9 +84,12 @@ add_custom_command(
 add_custom_target("${TR_NAME}-web"
     ALL
     DEPENDS
+        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.css"
+        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.css.LEGAL.txt"
+        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.css.map"
         "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.js"
+        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.js.LEGAL.txt"
         "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.js.map"
-        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/public_html/transmission-app.js.LICENSE.txt"
     SOURCES
         ${WEB_SOURCES})
 

web/README

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-# Transmission Web Client
-
-A web interface is built into all Transmission flavors, enabling them to be controlled remotely.
-
-## Developing locally
-
-First, in this web directory, run `npm i` to install all dependencies. (You’ll need to have node and npm installed, of course.)
-
-Run `npm run dev` to compile the source javascript files into a bundle, then navigate to [localhost:9000](http://localhost:9000/).
-
-Webpack will automatically compile on save, so you should see any changes reflected immediately.
-
-## Anonymizing your data for screenshots
-
-Use this bookmarklet to anonymize your torrent names before submitting a screenshot:
-
-`javascript:void%20function(){const%20a=document.getElementsByClassName(%22torrent-name%22);for(const%20b%20of%20a)console.log(b),b.textContent=%22Lorem%20ipsum%20dolor%20sit%20amet.iso%22}();`
-
-You’ll typically have about 3 seconds before the next batch of RPC updates overwrite the text content of any currently-downloading files.

web/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# Transmission Web Client
+
+A web interface is built into all Transmission flavors, enabling them to be controlled remotely.
+
+## Notes for Packagers
+
+### Building Without Node
+
+Transmission includes a prebuilt webapp bundle in its releases. This is
+done because it's not easy to install the bundling tools on all of the
+platforms that Transmission supports. Debian can't use this prebuilt
+bundle due to its (understandable) policies that require building from
+source. Unfortunately, building with `node run build` is also problematic
+because of some of `package.json`'s `devDependencies` aren't available as
+Debian packages.
+
+Follow these steps to build the webapp from source on Debian without Node:
+
+```sh
+$ sudo apt install rsass perl esbuild
+$ cd transmission/web/
+$ rsass assets/css/transmission-app.scss > assets/css/transmission-app.css
+$ perl -p -i -e 's/transmission-app.scss/transmission-app.css/' src/main.js
+$ esbuild \
+  --allow-overwrite \
+  --bundle \
+  --legal-comments=external \
+  --loader:.png=binary \
+  --loader:.svg=binary \
+  --minify \
+  --outfile=public_html/transmission-app.js \
+  src/main.js
+```
+
+## Notes for Developers
+
+```sh
+$ npm install
+$ npm run dev
+```
+
+Navigate to [localhost:9000](http://localhost:9000/) to run the app.
+
+When you use `npm run dev`, the bundler will stay running in the
+background and will rebuild transmission-app.js whenever you change
+and save a source file. When it's done, you can reload the page in
+your browser to see your changes in action.
+
+## Notes for Testers
+
+Use this bookmarklet to anonymize your torrent names before submitting a screenshot:
+
+`javascript:void%20function(){const%20a=document.getElementsByClassName(%22torrent-name%22);for(const%20b%20of%20a)console.log(b),b.textContent=%22Lorem%20ipsum%20dolor%20sit%20amet.iso%22}();`
+
+You’ll typically have about 3 seconds before the next batch of RPC updates overwrite the text content of any currently-downloading files.

web/babel.config.js

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-module.exports = {
-  "plugins": [
-    "@babel/plugin-transform-class-properties"
-  ],
-  "presets": []
-};

web/esbuild.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import * as esbuild from 'esbuild';
+import * as process from 'node:process';
+import {sassPlugin} from 'esbuild-sass-plugin';
+
+const ctx = await esbuild.context({
+  bundle: true,
+  entryPoints: ['./src/main.js'],
+  legalComments: 'external',
+  loader: {
+    '.png': 'binary',
+    '.svg': 'binary' },
+  minify: true,
+  outfile: './public_html/transmission-app.js',
+  plugins: [sassPlugin()],
+  sourcemap: true,
+});
+
+if (process.env.DEV) {
+  await ctx.watch();
+  console.log('watching...');
+} else {
+  await ctx.rebuild();
+  ctx.dispose();
+}

web/package.json

@@ -4,10 +4,8 @@
   "repository": "https://github.com/transmission/transmission",
   "license": "MIT",
   "scripts": {
-    "dev": "WEBPACK_MODE=development webpack serve --config webpack.config.js",
+    "build": "node esbuild.mjs",
-    "build": "webpack --config webpack.config.js",
+    "dev": "DEV=true node esbuild.mjs",
-    "css": "sass --no-source-map assets/css/",
-    "css:map": "sass assets/css/",
     "lint": "run-p --silent lint:eslint lint:stylelint lint:prettier",
     "lint:fix": "run-s lint:eslint:fix lint:stylelint:fix lint:prettier:fix",
     "lint:eslint": "eslint src/*.js",
@@ -18,30 +16,19 @@
     "lint:stylelint:fix": "stylelint --fix assets/css/*scss"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@babel/core": "^7.23.2",
+    "esbuild": "^0.19.7",
-    "@babel/eslint-parser": "^7.22.15",
+    "esbuild-sass-plugin": "^2.16.0",
-    "@babel/plugin-transform-class-properties": "^7.22.5",
     "@primer/stylelint-config": "^12.8.0",
-    "css-loader": "^6.8.1",
-    "css-minimizer-webpack-plugin": "^5.0.1",
     "eslint": "^8.45.0",
     "eslint-plugin-sonarjs": "^0.19.0",
     "eslint-plugin-unicorn": "^47.0.0",
-    "file-loader": "^6.2.0",
-    "mini-css-extract-plugin": "^2.7.6",
     "npm-run-all": "^4.1.5",
     "prettier": "^3.0.0",
     "sass": "^1.63.6",
-    "sass-loader": "^13.2.2",
     "style-loader": "^3.3.3",
     "stylelint": "^15.10.1",
     "stylelint-config-sass-guidelines": "^10.0.0",
-    "stylelint-config-standard": "^34.0.0",
+    "stylelint-config-standard": "^34.0.0"
-    "terser-webpack-plugin": "^5.3.9",
-    "webpack": "^5.88.1",
-    "webpack-bundle-analyzer": "^4.9.0",
-    "webpack-cli": "^5.1.4",
-    "webpack-dev-server": "^4.15.1"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "lodash.isequal": "^4.5.0"

web/package.json.buildonly

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "name": "transmission-web",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "repository": "https://github.com/transmission/transmission",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "scripts": {
+    "build": "node esbuild.mjs"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "esbuild": "^0.19.7",
+    "esbuild-sass-plugin": "^2.16.0"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "lodash.isequal": "^4.5.0"
+  }
+}

web/public_html/index.html

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
       content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0"
     />
     <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
+    <link href="./transmission-app.css" rel="stylesheet" />
     <link href="./images/favicon.ico" rel="icon" />
     <link href="./images/favicon.png" rel="shortcut icon" />
     <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="./images/webclip-icon.png" />

web/public_html/transmission-app.js.LEGAL.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-/* @license This file Copyright © Charles Kerr, Dave Perrett, Malcolm Jarvis and Bruno Bierbaumer
-   It may be used under GPLv2 (SPDX: GPL-2.0-only).
-   License text can be found in the licenses/ folder. */
-
 /* @license This file Copyright © Mnemosyne LLC.
    It may be used under GPLv2 (SPDX: GPL-2.0-only), GPLv3 (SPDX: GPL-3.0-only),
    or any future license endorsed by Mnemosyne LLC.
    License text can be found in the licenses/ folder. */
+/* @license This file Copyright © Charles Kerr, Dave Perrett, Malcolm Jarvis and Bruno Bierbaumer
+   It may be used under GPLv2 (SPDX: GPL-2.0-only).
+   License text can be found in the licenses/ folder. */

web/webpack.config.js

@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-const path = require('path');
-
-const MiniCssExtractPlugin = require('mini-css-extract-plugin');
-const CssMinimizerPlugin = require('css-minimizer-webpack-plugin');
-const TerserPlugin = require('terser-webpack-plugin');
-const webpack = require('webpack');
-
-const mode = process.env.WEBPACK_MODE || 'production';
-const devPort = process.env.DEV_PORT || 9000;
-const rpcUrl = process.env.RPC_URL || 'http://localhost:9091/transmission/rpc';
-
-const config = {
-  devtool: 'source-map',
-  entry: './src/main.js',
-  mode,
-  module: {
-    rules: [
-      {
-        test: /\.s(a|c)ss$/,
-        use: [
-          'style-loader', // create 'style' nodes from JS strings
-          'css-loader', // translate css into commonjs
-          'sass-loader', // compile sass into css
-        ],
-      },
-      {
-        test: /\.css$/i,
-        use: ['style-loader', 'css-loader'],
-      },
-      {
-        test: /\.(png|svg)/,
-        type: 'asset/inline',
-      },
-    ],
-  },
-  optimization: {
-    minimizer: [new TerserPlugin(), new CssMinimizerPlugin()],
-  },
-  output: {
-    filename: 'transmission-app.js',
-    path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'public_html'),
-    sourceMapFilename: '[file].map',
-  },
-  plugins: [
-    new MiniCssExtractPlugin({
-      chunkFilename: '[id].css',
-      filename: '[name].css',
-    }),
-    new webpack.optimize.LimitChunkCountPlugin({
-      maxChunks: 1,
-    }),
-  ],
-  resolve: {
-    extensions: ['.js', '.scss'],
-  },
-};
-
-if (mode === 'development') {
-  config.devServer = {
-    compress: true,
-    historyApiFallback: {
-      rewrites: [{ from: '/transmission/web', to: '/' }],
-    },
-    hot: true,
-    port: devPort,
-    proxy: {
-      '/rpc': rpcUrl,
-    },
-    static: './public_html',
-  };
-}
-
-module.exports = config;