Tips for new TMS Web Core developers and in particular for seasoned Delphi developers

Yes! I've found this as well, particularly when Delphi procedures or functions are only called by Javascript code, the compiler thinks it isn't used, so it excludes them. Also, when you use variables in a procedure but only in the Javascript code, like in your example about local variables, the compiler issues a Hint about that which is kind of annoying because it is otherwise perfectly valid. I included my workarounds for both of these in a writeup here. I hadn't thought of just wrapping the code in an if-then block, good idea!