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Joseph Ackerman
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Jul 06, 2017
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Bundling and "externals"

My current project uses jQuery and sp-pnp-js, and I have moved these to a document library in a "cdn" site collection in my tenant (it's not a *real* CDN, I just call it that -- it really is just a d...
  • Waldek Mastykarz's avatar
    Waldek Mastykarz
    Jul 14, 2017

    You don't need to do this. What you're looking at is a project created an older version of the SharePoint Framework, where more packages have been listed as external. In the latest version it's not required anymore which is why you're not seeing them anymore.

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Joseph Ackerman
Iron Contributor
Jul 10, 2017

Dean_Gross,

 

Thanks, yeah, I've played with that and got it to work fine.  But given the fine details (limited support for Private CDN, and Public CDN being...well, *public*), that solution is a non-starter for my customer -- they're much more comfortable with their assets continuing to be contained directly within their own SP sites. A dedicated site collection, site and document libraries are serving that function well at the moment.  If the customer comes back to me at a later date worried about performance, I can have the CDN talk with them again.

 

My question is not about where the assets should be stored -- it's about which ones I should instruct the tool chain to treat as external to the project so I don't end up bundling the same code into multiple web parts which will be running on the same page.  I'd like to lighten the web parts as much as possible to improve page-load performance on the intranet.

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    Dean_Gross
    Silver Contributor
    Jul 10, 2017
    "Public" is a poorly choosen word, all that it means is that anyone who has access to the tenant will have access to the resource. If you are not already logged into the tenant then you cannot get to the item in the "public CDN". VesaJuvonen explained this in his demo.
    • Joseph Ackerman's avatar
      Joseph Ackerman
      Iron Contributor
      Jul 19, 2017

      Dean_Gross,

      Interesting that you would say that because that's not what I remember from his demo, and a subsequent Webinar on JS security from Rencore a few weeks ago made a point of saying that using a CDN was a trade-off to get better performance at the expense of the asset's security.

       

      Can you point me to the "spot" in the video where Vesa says this?  Thanks.

       

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