Lucee Zero is a new smaller Lucee distribution without the admin or docs bundled.
This reduces the jar size by about 2mb and avoids expanding them on install, which makes Lucee initial startup a lot faster, as there is less to deploy.
Why an additional distribution?
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Firstly backwards compat with existing build pipelines, as you can’t build a full install by adding just extensions, the admin simply isn’t there with Lucee Zero.
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Secondly Lambas have some size limitations, you only have 50MB, when Lucee deploys, the
.lcois extracted intolucee-server/patchesand then thelucee-admin.larandlucee-doc.larare exracted out intolucee-server/context/context, plus inside the originallucee-zero.jar. -
So this new distribution saves roughly 6MB of disk space, as there ends up being three copies of these two
.lararchives on the filesystem once deployed.
When I run the local build for extensions, it’s about 6-7s faster (Lucee does deploy slower on windows than linux, so YMMV)
LDEV-4558 - A lighter Lucee light, Lucee Zero (no admin or docs)
This will be good for using with Fuseless: Tools for running Serverless CFML Lambda Functions by @pfreitag as smaller and faster is better for Lamdas
Actions · lucee/extension-compress · GitHub runs 4s faster
FYI: The Docs and Admin extensions you see in the admin, only add the required mappings to enable them, the admin is tightly tied to the release and is bundled in the core.lco file (by default)
Here are some examples of using the various Lucee distributions with Lucee script runner (default is 5.4.0.80)
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to build their own home grown administrator “light”.