Broken tracking code when template minifying is enabled

[mfickers]

The Elasticsuite Tracker JavaScript is not compatible with template minifying. The output is invalid syntax and does not work.

Preconditions

Config dev/template/minify_html set to 1. Config smile_elasticsuite_tracker/general/enabled set to 1.

Magento Version : 2.4.6-p6

ElasticSuite Version : 2.11.7

Environment : Production

Third party modules :

Steps to reproduce

1. Tracking and template minifying need to be enabled
2. Open up a page containing the tracking code, e.g. the home page

Expected result

1. Tracking is compatible with template minifying

Actual result

1. Output will look something like this:

<script> //<![CDATA[ try { smileTracker.addPageVar('type.identifier', 'cms_index_index');
smileTracker.addPageVar('type.label', 'CMS-Startseite');

smileTracker.addPageVar('locale', 'de_DE');
} catch
(err)
{
    ;
} //]]> </script>

Note how the first line of code is commented out.

More info

I believe this bug was introduced in this commit: https://github.com/Smile-SA/elasticsuite/commit/da235f79945aaf2137737b1d5bc562c0e6ff0bf2

The original file contains a line break before the try statement:

$scriptString = "
//<![CDATA[
try {
";

The minified file has these lines merged into one, breaking the code:

$scriptString = " //<![CDATA[ try { ";

EDIT: I've only analyzed this file, but I believe more files might be affected