Brainstorm: UX products that can be built on top of Recipes

Open soulofamachine opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

Starting a brainstorm here for how we can extract even more value out of recipes. such a great knowledge base!

From brainstorm with @JoshOrndorff :

Substrate Boxes: like truffle boxes, basically boilerplates that takes a combination of recipes and that already works out of the box for people. Devs can download boxes with one cli cmd, and have a custom blockchain already working. Insight here is that ppl want working code.
Substrate Playground image for each recipe, that builds and lets ppl interact in online IDE. Insight here is that ppl don't wanna set up their own dev env.
Each recipe could have an accompanying tutorial video (just 1 -5 min). Insight here is that ppl prefer to watch than to read.

Apr 20 '20 12:04 soulofamachine

Since this is expanded into several ideas, we're ideating it in notion, see: https://www.notion.so/paritytechnologies/Substrate-CLI-a7065cfc46e744d98e962202d980ec7d

repasting here for externals:

Rough Idea for the CLI part

A user-friendly CLI to simplify substrate development, testing and deployment. Think Truffle Suite, or Ruby-on-Rails CLI scaffolding tools. The point isn't to create new features, but to expose existing Recipes, Marketplace, Playground, JS, cargo-remote, etc. making it easier for users to use those awesome tools.

The Basics

Scaffold New Projects: **sub scaffold [-b] project_name**

Function: Initializes a new Substrate project from the latest Substrate template, or if -b from a pre-packaged component containing more boilerplate.
Boilerplates can come from (1) Substrate recipes and (2) Playground (3) just a clone url (?), e.g. Truffle Boxes
Examples: sub scaffold my_project, sub scaffold -b kitties, sub scaffold -b utxo, sub scaffold -b https://github.com/user/repo
Bonus (freebie in terms of implementation): sub tutorial tutorial_name, downloads the starter code for users during a workshop.

Add Pallets: **sub add [-n] pallet_name**

Function: extends the current project with an existing pallet from Substrate
Example: sub add currency, sub remove currency, sub add -n my_pallet, etc.

Use a console: sub console --mode

Function: a console to interact with chain state. Maybe let users add new genesis specs, and other configs here.

Automate tests: **sub test filename.rs**

Function: automatically scaffold (-n), run tests for new runtimes.

Simplify builds: sub build [-r] --release

Maybe lets users build remotely, speeding up development time e.g. https://github.com/sgeisler/cargo-remote
Maybe keeps track of build version history

Configurations: sub config -...

Not sure what should be configured in our case... deployment env? I'm sure there are a ton of things.

Version Management: sub version ...

Automate what's currently in scripts/init.sh, etc.
Maybe shows breaking dependencies, other dependency management stuff.

Later

All the validator features, managing/running nodes, etc.
can init a custom UI via CLI

Native app to manage Substrate projects (inspired by Truffle Suite)

handle state migrations

Other examples:

Apr 27 '20 04:04 soulofamachine