add build folder

[maruilian11]

hi, recently we want to add your lib to https://cdnjs.com, could you please consider adding a build folder with built files so that we can use git auto-update depending on git tags to grab each released version files for browser.
thank you very much!

cdnjs/cdnjs#6190

[dlongley]

Hopefully will be addressed in a new release now that #456 has been merged.

[davidlehn]

0.7.0 has been released which includes a built dist/forge.min.js file.

[davidlehn]

Duplicate of #186.
Also see https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/blob/master/README.md#unpkg

[maruilian11]

Many thanks!

[maruilian11]

@davidlehn Is it ok to generate bundle and minified files for Bowser from npm package before v0.7.0 with npm install, npm run minify and npm run bundle? I mean is there any difference to use git repo forge-dist or npm package node-forge as source? Because we are afraid node-forge is for node use. Just want to confirm this. Thanks!

cdnjs/cdnjs#10572 (comment)

[davidlehn]

Most of the pre 0.7.0 npm packages have everything thrown in them so can probably be used to build bundles. I don't know how far back that is true. All the cruft was stripped out in one recent release but the parts needed to build bundles were added back since apparently people used that.

For <0.7.0 the git source of forge-dist is the same as the main forge repo. For >=0.7.0 the forge-dist repo is just for built bundles and used to support bower and similar systems. The built files in the node-forge npm package are the same thing. They both are build with webpack using UMD format so should load in node or browser environments. Unfortunate choice of "node-forge" for the npm package since it can now be used in other ways, but a bit late to change that now.

It seems like only support for 0.7.0+ is needed going forward and that could just use the npm package. The bundles were added specifically to make unpkg and cdnjs easier to support.

[maruilian11]

Thank you for your explanation 😃

For <0.7.0 the git source of forge-dist is the same as the main forge repo.

So for < 0.7.0, source in forge-dist repo is also the same as npm package, right?