Next version will be Etherpad 1.8. As planned in #3424, we are going to require
NodeJS >=8.9.0 and npm >= 6.4.
This commit implements that change and updates documentation and scripts.
Subsequent changes will get rid of old idioms, dating back to node < 0.7, that
still survive in the code.
Once migrated to NodeJS 8, we will be able to start working on migrating the
code base from callbacks to async/await, greatly simplifying legibility (see
#3540).
Closes#3557
This commit implements the following behaviour:
1. adds a function clientPluginNames() to hooks.js (mimicking what is done in
static.js), which returns an array containing the list of currently installed
client side plugins. The array is eventually empty.
2. calls that function in pad.html at rendering time (thus server-side) to
populate a class attribute.
Example results:
- with no client-side plugins installed:
<div id="editorcontainerbox" class="">
- with some client-side plugins installed:
<div id="editorcontainerbox" class="ep_author_neat ep_adminpads">
Looking at the existing code (src/node/hooks/express/static.js#L39-L57), a
client-side plugin is defined as a plugin that implements at least a client side
hook.
NOTE: there is currently no support for notifying plugin removal/installation
to the connected clients: for now, in order to get an updated class list,
the clients will have to refresh the page.
Fixes#3488
Etherpad 1.6.6 does not run on node <= 5 already.
Node 6.9 is the first LTS release in the 6 series, and comes with npm 3.10.8.
Declarations in package.json are advisory unless the user has set
`engine-strict` config flag.
Updated the docs accordingly.
muxator