The webserver's job is to serve files generated by Embark's built-in pipeline,
however, since v4 users can choose they front-end tool to take care of building,
bundling and packing their DApps. Usually these tools come with a built-in
dev server as well.
Therefore, when the pipeline is turned off (which also soon will be the default),
there's not need start a webserver.
This enables removing unnecessary `core/fs` dependencies which can be
replaced with `fs-extra`.
This commit also fixes a bug introduced in f868d1216d
where methods from `embark.fs` weren't available.
The reason for that is because we have several *Process instances
that are created through child process communication, specifically
process.send() APIs. Using those APIs, we can only send data structures
however, methods attached on any of those will get lost.
This is the case when sending embark.fs through process.send().
We still need fs in those places though, mostly because they are relying
on embarkPath and dappPath().
These places are now importing those functions from `embark-core`. Other
API such as writeFile or mkdirp() can be accessed through fs-extra
or fs modules.
If a package uses only `.js` then supply `--extensions ".js"`. If a package
uses only `.ts` then supply `--extensions ".ts"`. If a package uses both, then
supply `--extensions ".js,.ts"`.
The reason for this is that adding/removing TS/JS support ought to occasion
revising a package's `package.json` file and adjusting other scripts as well,
e.g. for linting. With these changes, it won't work to simply start adding
`.ts` files in a package's `src/` directory, which should prompt the developer
to review `package.json` and make the appropriate changes, and/or other
developers may realize changes need to be made during code review.
Add support for `service webserver on/off` commands.
Deprecate commands `webserver start/stop` in favor of `service webserver on/off`.
Handles passing through of arguments to the function executed after process launch.
`service webserver on` - Enables the webserver serving the DApp. Shows an error if the webserver is already starting or started.
`service webserver off` - Disables the webserver serving the DApp. Shows an error if the webserver is already stopping or stopped.
`webserver start` - This command has been deprecated in favor of `service webserver on` and will be removed in future versions.
`webserver stop` - This command has been deprecated in favor of `service webserver off` and will be removed in future versions.
This commit has been originally cherry-picked from d0d89fc5ae and
slightly modified to update all packages, as meanwhile, new packages have been added to `master`.
The reason this commit is cherry-picked from `4.0.x` branch is because
it wasn't created from `master`.
Purpose is mainly to update `CHANGELOG` and get the package versions in sync again.
Michael Bradley, Jr
Pascal Precht
emizzle
Iuri Matias