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The initial load of the code is slow because we are currently loading from .st files. If my javascript foo was better, I'd also have some kind of waiting for installation message ... maybe even a progress display of each package as it is loaded ... but alas that is not the case at the moment.

The obvious solution is to bootstrap the the Amber Project and Cypress support from .js files and this will be done eventually.

See amber-cypress issue #2

Disclaimer: the target project I have in mind is one where I need to share some code between the server and the client. Not all applications have such a requirement.

In short, I would like to separate client ressources from server ressources, specific application ressources from libraries, and my own ressources (including application/library) from vendor ressources. Plus one place for shared ressources.

I have two schemas in mind. One is more "deployment-oriented" with a cut between client and server. The other is more "app-oriented" with a cut between specific app code (client+server) and libraries, with the image in its own dir.

Anyway, I guess this structure is only for development, so I have a small preference for the second one. For deployment, I guess everything client-side could be packaged in a public directory, with packages compiled in a single js file.

client/<yourapp>      "your app, including ressources and specific packages for Amber"
client/lib              "your internal projects already packaged as libraries for deployment"
client/vendor      "external projects used client-side (amber, amber-cypress...)"

"packages for both client and server"
shared/<yourapp>
shared/lib

server/pharo      "the server image itself"
server/pharo/lib         "specific packages for Pharo (amber-server, filetree...)"
server/<yourapp>      "app packages, server-side"
server/lib              "Cypress packages shareable between multiple ST implementations"
server/vendor      "Cypress packages shareable between multiple ST implementations"

script    "bootstrap scripts"