Sourcemaps for the cli

The cli does run sourceMapSupport.install() but I suspect it’s not working as expected with babel etc. The cli and its webpack config was the very first thing I started when I started this project so it’s most likely rough and hacky.

The problem comes from the fact that unexpected errors produce near useless stack traces.

Try…

1. Edit something like client/src/document.js and put in a throw new Error('hello world') somewhere in some component.
2. Run cd cli && CLI_BUILD_HTML=true yarn run run ../stumptown/packaged/html/reference/elements/video.json

[peterbe]

Hey @peterbe 😄 Have been enjoying looking through this repo - out of curiosity, was there a limitation on Next.js that prevented y’all from adopting it and doing hand-rolled React SSR?

Initially, it was lack of skills. In my defense, the early prototype of Yari was made when NextJS wasn’t even known 😃 At the time I was very comfortable around CRA and just wanted to get something up and running. By the time we realized what a mess CRA is when you want to do SSR and having to do your own Babel etc. so you can use it in Node, it was clear that we needed something like NextJS. From there, we just didn’t get around to it. Like a recurring piece of tech debt we rolled along in front of us.

We did attempt some NextJS at one point, led by my colleague, but in hindsight, I think that project attempted to do EVERYTHING the NextJS way including running it in Vercel. It would have been better to allow the regular Node code entirely worry itself with doing the Markdown and macro expansion stuff and dumping to the file system (or a database). Then, the getStaticProps (or getServerSideProps) could just read the content from disk, by taking the req.path and transposing it to the relevant build/${path}.json kinda deal. That way, we’d get NextJS to handle all SSR but become agnostic as to how the hell the HTML payload is prepared.

I left the Yari (Mozilla) in late 2021 and I used NextJS on my personal and new work projects.

[leerob]

Hey @peterbe 😄 Have been enjoying looking through this repo - out of curiosity, was there a limitation on Next.js that prevented y’all from adopting it and doing hand-rolled React SSR?