Does plovr support the latest closure library?

Question

I was using plovr as closure compiler for the latest google closure library, but it think it plays nicely. Why is this so?

Link= http://plovr.com/docs.html

Thanks in advance for the help,

Kiran

Answer 1

Generally speaking, if you update the library, you would also need to update the compiler, as they're designed to work together. Getting a new compiler release to work with Plovr is non-trivial since it makes use of its internals and thus Plovr itself must be recompiled. While Plovr supports pointing to a custom Closure Library checkout, there have been enough changes (eg dependency, type system, module declarations) in Closure to make Plovr's stale compiler incompatible with recent library releases.

Here are a couple blocking issues in supporting more recent editions of the Library:

• #162: Dependency analysis is outdated
• #160: Generation logic of deps.js is outdated

This is particularly striking as new namespaces in the Library make use of the goog.module -style declaration.

Answer 2

I would like to add that I have contributed to Plovr last week to be able to support the latest version. However, since medium took over the NPM package I created a fork that I like to keep updated. Google Closure Compiler and Google Closure Library are both excellent tools. Plovr is also.

Please take a look over at: https://github.com/Plovr/Plovr-build/packages/36644 which is the npm package hosted at github packages. I plan to add this later to npm too. It works with the current latest release of closure (v20190929, released 14 days ago as of writing this post)