Tell Aurelia which route need which plugin?

[ben-girardet]

Is there a way to tell Aurelia which route need which plugin ? This is for optimisation (chunk) purposes.

Currently I load all required plugins for an application in the main.ts, which means they all get loaded on first app display, whichever route is requested. However I have plugins that are only required on some routes and could save lots of kb by not loading them immediately.

I know we can tell Aurelia to load module in different chunk depending on route by doing

// route config
PLATFORM.moduleName(moduleName, 'chunk-name');

But can we then also tell Aurelia which plugins are required on which route ?

[ben-girardet]

Seems that this is the best answer so far:

Adding plugins post initial load

I have a case where I need to add my plugins post initial load. The way my team implemented OIDC has us doing a lot of unnecessary plugin loading when the site will be simply redirected to the login page. It is only after a user is available from OIDC when I want to load the rest of the plugins. I have tried to add the plugins by instantiating a new FrameworkConfiguration(this.aurelia) where this.aurelia is injected at the constructor. I add the plugins then call config.apply (); this does …

I find that it works pretty well by loading the plugin in the canActivate() lifecycle hook of a module. The downside of this approach is that you need to do the work for each module that need special plugin loading. Would be great to be able to provide some config in the route of configureRouter() but didn’t find a way to do so.