Don't bundle Vue with nativescript-vue

[nativescript-vue]

Don't bundle Vue with nativescript-vue

[chrisvfritz]

Which internals do you need access to?

[rigor789]

For example in https://github.com/rigor789/nativescript-vue/blob/master/nativescript-vue/platform/nativescript/runtime/patch.js I'm importing createPatchFunction from core. Or https://github.com/rigor789/nativescript-vue/blob/master/nativescript-vue/platform/nativescript/compiler.js exports directly from vue core. These things should be left unexported though. I think, it is very rare that someone would actually need to use these.

Only issue with this is that it requires me to set up a roll-up config that sets up the same aliases as vue, so when bundling I don't get errors of unknown modules due to aliases.

[chrisvfritz]

Understood. I agree and also don't see a better alternative, though granted, I have a very limited understanding of NativeScript.

[jlooper]

I'm more familiar with how we do things in Angular + NativeScript, which is to use elements of Angular/core with NativeScript's bridge to Angular, as set up in package.json like this:

"dependencies": {
    "@angular/common": "4.1.1",
    "@angular/compiler": "4.1.1",
    "@angular/core": "4.1.1",
    "@angular/forms": "4.1.1",
    "@angular/http": "4.1.1",
    "@angular/platform-browser": "4.1.1",
    "@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "4.1.1",
    "@angular/router": "4.1.1",
    "nativescript-angular": "3.0.0",
    "nativescript-ngx-fonticon": "~2.2.0",
    "reflect-metadata": "~0.1.10",
    "rxjs": "~5.3.1",
    "tns-core-modules": "3.0.0",
    "zone.js": "~0.8.10"
  },

--can we follow a similar strategy with Vue? @chrisvfritz ?

[rigor789]

Unfortunately, vue doesn't utilize sub modules like angular does.

On one hand it really does make it harder to integrate, but on the other hand from a end user perspective I'd much rather have one dependency, than multiple that I have to keep track of.

[chrisvfritz]

Anything that ties into Vue internals and we expose as an independent package will be here. That includes a template compiler and server renderer.

The vue-loader package is a great place to look for an example of consuming the template compiler, parsing single-file components, etc.

[rigor789]

One of the possible solutions to not having to bundle Vue is if there was an official package for creating custom renderers. I opened an thread in the vue repository to get the conversation going: vuejs/vue#7005

[rigor789]

Closing because at this point we are not able to do this, will re-visit once Vue is broken up into smaller pieces according to plans.

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