This PR introduces the ability to just override a LESS file's contents through an extender.
This is mainly useful for theme development, as there are times in extensively customized themes where overriding the actual file makes a huge difference vs overriding CSS styles which can turn into a maintenance hell real fast.
Overriding styles is more tedious than overriding files. When you're designing an element, you would normally rather start from a blank canvas, than a styled element. With an already styled element you have to first override and undo the styles you do not wish to have, only then can you start shaping it, but even then you'd always end up constantly undoing default styles. This mostly applies for more advanced themes. (example: 851c55516d/less/forum/DiscussionList.less)
* Extender docblocks cleanup
* Excplicit type hinting in extenders
* Bring method under constructor
* Mark some classes and methods as internal
* Remove beta references
Co-authored-by: Clark Winkelmann <clark.winkelmann@gmail.com>
Refactor Frontend + Asset code
- Use Laravel's Filesystem component for asset IO, meaning theoretically
assets should be storable on S3 etc.
- More reliable checking for asset recompilation when debug mode is on,
so you don't have to constantly delete the compiled assets to force
a recompile. Should also fix issues with locale JS files being
recompiled with the same name and cached.
- Remove JavaScript minification, because it will be done by Webpack
(exception is for the TextFormatter JS).
- Add support for JS sourcemaps.
- Separate frontend view and assets completely. This is an important
distinction because frontend assets are compiled independent of a
request, whereas putting together a view depends on a request.
- Bind frontend view/asset factory instances to the container (in
service providers) rather than subclassing. Asset and content
populators can be added to these factories – these are simply objects
that populate the asset compilers or the view with information.
- Add RouteHandlerFactory functions that make it easy to hook up a
frontend controller with a frontend instance ± some content.
- Remove the need for "nojs"
- Fix cache:clear command
- Recompile assets when settings/enabled extensions change
