Compiling individual instances instead of whole page
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Description
The page.compile() API seems like it's designed specifically to be used with a page that itself is written in the webc format. This means that any existing (unrelated) scripts and style tags on the page need to have webc:keep added to them to prevent webc from touching them.
It would be nice to be able to tell webc to only compile the files that it finds in the globs passed via defineComponents and ignore the rest of the page. Since webc knows about this list of components ahead of time, this should be possible. 🤔
One very common use case for this is when a global layout file is written in plain html/njk. This might have critical styles and inline scripts that should not be processed by webc.
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Research direction
Start with the page.compile() API and the component list passed through defineComponents; inspect how webc:keep currently protects unrelated scripts and styles. Done means pages with plain HTML/Nunjucks layouts compile only matching component files while preserving unrelated scripts, styles, and other markup without requiring webc:keep.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100