kittoframework
Widget and job package manager
Building a package manager to install widgets and jobs would help the process of building a dashboard and get people from idea to app even faster.
The idea is to that someone can create a package which includes both the widget javascript and stylesheet as a Gist or some other package form. Then we could add a Mix task for installing the widget with:
mix kitto.install.widget davejlong/4990174 # <= davejlong/4990174 being a Gist that includes the widget
Creating a job would be just as simple:
mix kitto.install.job davejlong/4990167 # <= davejlong/4990167 being a Gist that includes the job file
I totally agree we should make it easier for the user to quickly populate dashboards with ready-made widgets/jobs.
Dashing already does something similar to what you propose (see: https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/blob/master/lib/dashing/cli.rb#L92).
Why do you suggest to have different tasks for widget, job installation?
I suppose there's no need to have different tasks. In theory the implementation would just be to pull a Gist. Group sass and js files into a widget and exs files into a job. If neither a widget, nor a job are found, fail with an exception saying as such.
Dashing plugin system works fine for widgets / jobs without external dependencies.
If a widget needs an npm package to work, the user will still have to do some manual work to tweak her package.json and do npm install.
I'm doing some research on how we could incorporate a mechanism like http://docs.operable.io/docs/bundle-configs so that we can have a registry for to showcase their dashboards/widgets and a simple config for someone to declare kitto plugin dependencies.
I was going to start doing some research tonight on building something out a little more advanced than Dashing as well. I think having a web based search engine for finding packages will be important to the growth of Kitto and something that was always lacking in Dashing. Perhaps we can have a further conversation on this in Slack?
On November 16, 2016 at 1:55:12 PM, Dimitrios Zorbas ( [email protected]) wrote:
I'm doing some research on how we could incorporate a mechanism like http://docs.operable.io/docs/bundle-configs so that we can have a registry for to showcase their dashboards/widgets and a simple config for someone to declare kitto plugin dependencies.
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Meanwhile I added a script to help updating the core widgets.
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Zorbash/98afb51cb7287ff7fe3b2b9a3331dc5f/raw/16ec3aa6e7ef88ee121ee4c30fc982e5f8775850/kitto_updater.sh)"