read frontend version from VERSION file instead latest git revision

VERSION

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dev

client/app/components/Footer.jsx

@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ import { react2angular } from 'react2angular';
 
 export function Footer({ clientConfig, currentUser }) {
   const backendVersion = clientConfig.version;
-  /* global COMMIT */
+  /* global FRONTEND_VERSION */
   /* eslint no-undef: "error" */
-  const frontendVersion = COMMIT;
+  const frontendVersion = FRONTEND_VERSION;
   const newVersionAvailable = clientConfig.newVersionAvailable && currentUser.isAdmin;
   const separator = ' \u2022 ';
 

package.json

@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@
     "eslint-plugin-react": "^7.7.0",
     "estraverse": "^4.2.0",
     "file-loader": "^2.0.0",
-    "git-revision-webpack-plugin": "^3.0.3",
     "html-webpack-plugin": "^3.2.0",
     "jest": "^23.6.0",
     "less": "^2.7.3",
@@ -120,6 +119,7 @@
     "raw-loader": "^0.5.1",
     "react-test-renderer": "^16.5.2",
     "request": "^2.88.0",
+    "shelljs": "^0.8.3",
     "url-loader": "^0.5.9",
     "webpack": "^4.20.2",
     "webpack-build-notifier": "^0.1.16",

webpack.config.js

@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ const CopyWebpackPlugin = require("copy-webpack-plugin");
 const LessPluginAutoPrefix = require("less-plugin-autoprefix");
 const BundleAnalyzerPlugin = require("webpack-bundle-analyzer")
   .BundleAnalyzerPlugin;
-const GitRevisionPlugin = require("git-revision-webpack-plugin")
-const gitRevisionPlugin = new GitRevisionPlugin()
+const shell = require('shelljs');
 
 const path = require("path");
 
@@ -44,10 +43,9 @@ const config = {
   },
   plugins: [
     new WebpackBuildNotifierPlugin({ title: "Redash" }),
-    gitRevisionPlugin,
     new webpack.DefinePlugin({
       ON_TEST: process.env.NODE_ENV === "test",
-      COMMIT: JSON.stringify(gitRevisionPlugin.version())
+      FRONTEND_VERSION: JSON.stringify(shell.cat('VERSION').toString().trim())
     }),
     // Enforce angular to use jQuery instead of jqLite
     new webpack.ProvidePlugin({ "window.jQuery": "jquery" }),