Policy beforeAll not called in production mode

I’ve run into a strange issue where I’ve defined all my rules in a policy and applied that to various targets in a plugin definition. This appears to install well enough and executes most of the code. However, the beforeAll function, while executing in NODE_ENV=development does nothing when executing in NODE_ENV=production. I cannot nail it down. Here are some snippets from the plugin source:

export default ({ app, store }) => {

  const getUser = () => {
    console.log('--> In acl.getUser');
    if (!app.$auth.loggedIn) {
      console.log('----> In acl.getUser: user is NOT logged in');
      return {};
    }
    console.log('----> In acl.getUser: user is logged in');
    return app.$auth.user;
  }

  class PermissionBasedPolicy {
    beforeAll(verb, user, target, targetId) {
      console.log(`------> In acl.beforeAll: user ${user.id}, verb ${verb}, target ${target}, targetId ${targetId}`);
      return permissionMatcher(store, verb, user, target, targetId);
    }
  }

  class Foo {}
  class Bar {}

  Vue.use(Acl, getUser, (acl) => {
    acl.policy(PermissionBasedPolicy, Foo);
    acl.policy(PermissionBasedPolicy, Bar);
  }, {
    helper: true,
  });

  Vue.prototype.$can.any = (verbs, verbObjects, ...args) => {
    console.log('In acl.$can.any');
    return verbs.some(verb => Vue.prototype.$can(verb, verbObjects, ...args));
  };
};

When in development mode all prints to console as intended:

In acl.$can.any
--> In acl.getUser
----> In acl.getUser: user is logged in
------> In acl.beforeAll: user e5da3cf2-242a-11e8-b467-0ed5f89f718b, verb WRITE, target Foo, targetId Foo
--> In acl.getUser
----> In acl.getUser: user is logged in
------> In acl.beforeAll: user e5da3cf2-242a-11e8-b467-0ed5f89f718b, verb ALL, target Foo, targetId Foo

When in production mode - and I can’t stress enough that this is the only explicit change I am making - it never hits the beforeAll as evidenced by the same logging statements’ output:

...
In acl.$can.any
--> In acl.getUser
----> In acl.getUser: user is logged in
--> In acl.getUser
----> In acl.getUser: user is logged in
...

I am running this from within a nuxtjs application. As such, building in production mode has some side effects related to webpack, etc. A lot of that is beyond my expertise, but it seems extremely odd that a function call is completely omitted.

[cxl-todd]

Hey @mblarsen, looks good to me! Thanks!

[mblarsen]

Hi @cxl-todd I appended a section to the README setup section what do you think?