Imports are optimized to be concurrent/async by webpack, which means that when the old index.js referenced the Lifecycle from the react-sdk it caused the app to explode. This is because in another branch the Lifecycle references a class member of a skinnable component, leading to the skinner complaining that the skin hasn't been loaded.
To work around this, we've shoved all the app stuff to a new app.js file, leaving just the skinning and some early bootstrap work in the index.js
We have to convert *something* to TypeScript so it doesn't complain that there's nothing to compile, so this converts the easiest utility library.
Many of the scripts are copied from the react-sdk.
This will have done its job now, everyone's had long enough to
install a newer version of Riot and migrate to the new origin.
Laves the code on the backend that handles it for the time being,
as per comment.
Following on from https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/3637
this removes the code dealing with themes in vector/index.js and uses the
code from react-sdk. The two did almost exactly the same thing but in
subtley different ways.
This code can be incredibly subtle though, so doing this a separate
PR.
A thesis presented in two parts. This part has the absolute minimum
logic changes to the themeing code in vector/index.js because I know
how subtle and fragile this code is. However, it also looks like it's
completely duplicated from react-sdk, so in the next part I'm going
to remove that logic and make it use the logic in react-sdk, then we
can see what breaks.
Requires https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/3637
It's still not 100% clear whether storage is always persistent on
Electron, but we seem to be getting reports of it being deleted in
the wild on Electron, so let's try calling the API to request
persistent storage. It won't pop up a dialog on Electron. In the
worst case it will give us some logging so we know what the API calls
return.
We could do this on non-desktop too but it's a bit of a mess because
Firefox prompts the user but Chrome makes a decision itself based on
how much the user visits the site.
