cdnjs - local loader about cdnjs

[mokies]

Great idea but isn't this what a browser cache should be doing?

[thomasdavis]

Correct, but a browser cannot make the assumption that file is not modified on the server so it has to send off a request. Because we know that files don't change on a CDN and we know the file paths stay the same we can make the assumption before any http request are made at all. The extension also aids development when using force refresh plus having a local copy of all the popular javascript libraries.

[graingert]

Is the source code available? https://github.com/cdnjs/chrome-extension seems empty

It looks like this will be quite an easy port to the mozilla AddOn SDK

[thomasdavis]

hey @graingert, will push up the source code in a few hours. I only mocked it together as a proof of concept. So will quickly refactor it.

I've also nearly completed the build server which auto generates the crx everytime the cdn repo is updated which then sends out update notifications to browsers.

It uses chrome web request so hopefully firefox has an equivalent

[thomasdavis]

I was thinking of adding in a extension page that allows you to peruse the libraries locally to

[graingert]

It's probably a good idea to move the discussion into separate issues, eg missing source code, App SDK port, settings window/UI

[thomasdavis]

Ye good idea, I will push the extension and the build server into separate repos and update this comment thread when I'm done.

[thomasdavis]

Heres my original mess thus far

https://github.com/cdnjs/browser-extension

uses node to download the repo, extract it into extension, white list the resources and pack it into crx file

[blanchardjeremy]

The download link on the info page seems broken.

[thomasdavis]

Sorry the link is back up @auzigog