Allow Pantry to Run in Development Mode about pantry HOT 4 CLOSED

For Pantry, webpack is only used to build front-end assets so I'm not sure if using the DefinePlugin could help us to bypass the ReCaptcha, Slack, SendGrid logic.

However, we should definitely add this as well since we could display some neat developer debug items on the frontend (such as ID's & loadtimes)

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@kaffarell I've opened up a PR to address this issue, check it out here. This PR will stop Pantry from attempting to post to any 3rd party services (Slack/CRM) and disables the ReCaptcha.

Just an FYI but when you create an account Pantry currently log's the Pantry ID to your console

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@kaffarell That's a great idea, and one that will really speed up local development. Perhaps we can use a NODE_ENV variable to check if Pantry is running locally, and if so bypass certain features.

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That would be a good idea! We could also use the Define Plugin in webpack:

module.exports = (env, argv) => {
    return {
        ....
        plugins: [
            new webpack.DefinePlugin({
                '__ENVIRONMENT__': JSON.stringify(argv.mode)
            }),
        ],
      ...
    }
};

and then call it like this:

webpack --mode=development

and the in the code:

console.log('Mode: ' + __ENVIRONMENT__);

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