Use frontend plugin to build web-client #131
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The "frontend" plugin is a nice improvement over directly using the exec plugin
to invoke "npm" for building the web-client. For one thing, the intent is more
clear. But the real advantage is that the frontend plugin will automatically
download and install Node and npm binaries into the bin directory, removing
the need for developers (or CI servers) to install Node and npm in order to
build container-jfr. This also keeps versions consistent and makes builds more
reproducible. These additional binaries will be removed on
mvn clean
, andare also cached in
.m2
, so the build time impact is very minimal after the firstrun.