extern files for the google closure compiler

[nha]

[feature request]

I would like to use material-ui, and in my toolchain I use the google closure compiler, which does dead-code elimination and renames things. To prevent it from renaming we have to have .extern.js files.

This is a bit tedious at first, but it allows shipping only the code that is being used. It would also allow to use material-ui from ClojureScript (which uses the google closure compiler).

Could it be an option to add these files to material-ui ?

[alitaheri]

I'm not very familiar with .extern.js files. what would the contents be? Can it not be handled from user side?

[oliviertassinari]

We haven't heard about since a long time. I'm closing but we are open to better support the google closure compiler.

[nenadalm]

Hi. I just noticed that react is working on it: facebook/react#11092 so I was wondering how it is with material-ui and found this ticket.

[oliviertassinari]

@nenadalm React is a bit different. They are publishing one big optimized javascript file. We are publishing a lot of small files (e.g. each components) that users build system have to bundle. (different story for the umd bundle)
As far as I know, you can't have tree shaking with the React publishing approach, but it's fine as they don't need it. We do.