Preact: Latest release is completely broken

[jescalan]

It looks like there was an update to the minification script which caused all variables to be renamed, which probably was to save some extra bytes in the package. However, it renamed all the exports, and it also renamed "exports" as well, so now the package exports an empty object, which causes anything using preact to fail completely. Here's how the main export looks, built from the latest release directly:

For now, we are pinning to 8.2.7, which fixes the problem. Probably something should be done about this quickly, as it's a fairly critical issue.

[developit]

Ack! We will fix this right away.

[developit]

Alright, we have rolled it back for now. Thanks for reporting @jescalan!

[marvinhagemeister]

FYI: Filed an issue at the uglify repo https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/issues/3107

[yaodingyd]

@marvinhagemeister is this the same issue with uglifyjs v3 handle inline function? #1065

[leeoniya]

might also want to consider switching to https://github.com/google/closure-compiler-js, it's much slower (several seconds vs dozens of ms) but the bundles end up smaller and with fewer regressions, in my experience.

[developit]

@leeoniya I'd certainly be open to it - Sam did a bunch of experimentation and got things set up with GCC a while back in #564.

[developit]

@yaodingyd yup, the VNode constructor issue is that one. Thing is, I believe we are benefitting from function inlining elsewhere, so we can't turn it off wholesale.

[marvinhagemeister]

Re-open, because we haven't made a new release yet.

[jescalan]

Very exciting, thanks for your great work! 🙇🙇🙇