Dependency updates, Maven plugin updates, refactorings and cleanups

[dheid]

Hi @jamesward !

Again some dependency updates, refactorings, Maven plugin updates and stuff to the WebJars locator

Perhaps the most important change is the usage of Mustache template engine to generate the setup JavaScript snippet using a template file.

Best regards

Daniel

[jamesward]

Thanks for this! My only concern with this is the runtime templating having a performance impact. I'd rather switch this to a compile time template. Maybe there is a Maven plugin to compile the mustache template at compile time?

[dheid]

Mustache is extremly fast and the template is cached once it was requested for a specific path. Sadly you cannot precompile the template, since most of it will be build according to the WebJar classpath elements. So from my understanding we cannot compile it in advance. It won't be much slower than the previous string concatenation.

See also: https://github.com/mbosecke/template-benchmark

[jamesward]

Ah cool. Since it gets cached, that is sufficient reason. Thanks for the details!

[jamesward]

I'm releasing 0.43 now.