Stuck loading Gutenberg (JS errors) when using Gutenberg with Drupal 9.2
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<h3 id="summary-problem-motivation">Problem/Motivation</h3>
<p>Gutenberg stuck loading when using it on Drupal 9.2 and have JS aggregation enabled. The reason is a wrong order of jquery_ui JS files, which speaks for an underlying Drupal core issue.</p>
<p>The screenshot beneath shows the errors in non aggregation mode.</p>
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<p>There is a "hacky" workaround for Gutenberg in [3219569#comment-14146442] and a workaround for Drupal core at [3219569#comment-14153148].</p>
<p>Please check the Drupal core issue at <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3222107" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3222107: Library order asset weights do not work properly when a large number of javascript files is loaded between two jQuery UI libraries</a></span> for further progress.</p>
<p><strong>Why does it happen after the Drupal 9.2 deprecation?</strong><br>
Because of the jquery.ui deprecation process the core libraries and dependencies have been slightly changed.</p>
<p><strong>Is it a core problem?</strong><br>
Quite likely. The problem does not seem to appear with Drupal core and e.g. CKEditor. But the bug seem to have been introduced by the jquery.ui changes. Until now I only found another issue, that describes a similar problem (see below).</p>
<p><strong>Why does it "only" happening with Gutenberg?</strong><br>
It's not related to Gutenberg. It happens when there are a lot of Javascript files going to be used (more than 100) on a page. Gutenberg is using a lot of individual Javascriipt files. Therefore we see it there. </p>
<h4 id="summary-steps-reproduce">Steps to reproduce</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install Drupal 9.2</li>
<li>Install Gutenberg 8.x-2.x</li>
<li>Enable the Gutenberg Experience for the article content type at <code>/admin/structure/types/manage/article</code></li>
<li>Open the add node page at <code>/node/add/article</code></li>
<li>You should see the error. Disable JS aggregation check the file order.
</li></ol>
<p>The problem is, that <code>controlgroup-min.js</code> and other jquery.ui files depending on jquery.ui <code>widget-min.js</code> are invoked before the widget-min.js file.</p>
<h3 id="summary-proposed-resolution">Proposed resolution</h3>
<h3 id="summary-remaining-tasks">Remaining tasks</h3>
<h3 id="summary-ui-changes">User interface changes</h3>
<h3 id="summary-api-changes">API changes</h3>
<h3 id="summary-data-model-changes">Data model changes</h3>
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