What is the best practice to use external UI components

(0) Share

Report

Posted on by Fosco

Hello,

I ask myself what is the best practice for using external JavaScript UI components on a webpage.

Should all JavaScripts / CSS / TTF and so on be packed into one solution or is it better to make them accessible on a web server?

Best regards

All responses (4)

Answers (1)

Fosco 19 on at

Like (0)

Report

RE: What is the best practice to use external UI components

Thank you, I agree.
Verified answer

David Jennaway 14,065 on at

Like (0)

Report

RE: What is the best practice to use external UI components

If these are external components that don't change (or would get a different version and url if they do change), then the deployment point is not an issue. Then it depends on whether you have cross-site issues. Providing that you can get around any cross-site issues, then in this scenario it would make sense to reference files on an external server
Fosco 19 on at

Like (0)

Report

RE: What is the best practice to use external UI components

I understand what you mean and I would do it the same way.

But what is with librarys like jqwidgets. I think they have quite a few files that aren't necessarily small either.

This would inflate the solution accordingly.

And Breaking changes are not to be expected for such libraries.
David Jennaway 14,065 on at

Like (0)

Report
RE: What is the best practice to use external UI components

To me the 2 main factors are:

Deployment between environments. With web resources in a solution, it is easy to deploy any changes amongst with CRM components. If you host files on a separate server, you'd may need to change the links when deploying between environments, and there's no simple way to automate this

If hosting on a separate web server, you will need to address cross-site issues, whereas if all components are web resources, then they will all be in the same site and domain

Both of these would lead to be having all code in CRM as web components, and not on a separate server