This is a basic POC (proof of concept) for an experiment to build NetSuite SS2.0 scripts using Webpack / TypeScript / Babel.
- Ability to use virtually any npm package just by
npm installing andimporting - Ability to use latest ECMA script features with babel transpiling including automatic polyfilling
- Type safety and convenient IntelliSense autocomplete with TypeScript and NetSuite typings (using https://www.npmjs.com/package/@hitc/netsuite-types)
- Possible performance benefits (still need to be benchmarked) due to automatic minification, single file rollup, tree shaking etc..
Obviously using the generated build artifacts in a real project would make debugging very difficult. Possible avenues for real world usage would be to somehow generate / use source maps, or alternatively a hybrid approach were only the vendor libraries are built with webpack but project code is uploaded regularly.
- Add a script file to the
./srcdirectory - Run
npm run build - The generated file will be output in the
./distdirectory to be uploaded to NetSuite
The example scripts use the following libraries. If there are any other npm libraries you would you have liked to use with SuiteScript but struggled to get working, please let me know (or try yourself using this build script and if it works create a push request).
Michoel Chaikin <micholi@gmail.com>
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