PublicLab.Editor Document how to connect easily plots2 and PL.editor projects for local development

Hi,

We have already written amazing documentation on how to connect the 2 projects here , however it requires us to do yarn install --force in plots2 every time we do change in PL.editor.

Let's use yarn link instead and make it seamless 😄

Resources: https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/link/

Oct 07 '20 07:10 Sagarpreet

Hi @Sagarpreet i think outreachy applicants can work on this right?

If you think that would be necessary, maybe add some more straightforward details about how to do this like is with the other FTO issues? My thought is that some new comers may not immediately grasp the yarn docs enough to apply it in our own doc :smiley:

Oct 12 '20 20:10 Shulammite-Aso

Great idea @Shulammite-Aso, sure will do 😄 !

Oct 13 '20 06:10 Sagarpreet

@Sagarpreet kindly can you add more details?

Oct 16 '20 17:10 Janitham97

So while working in PL.editor, many times it is required to test your changes in plots2 project. So the current way of doing it is documented here: https://github.com/publiclab/PublicLab.Editor#creating-a-mock-server Which requires u to do change package.json and give path to your local copy of PL.editor and do yarn install --force everytime you do change in PL.editor which is cumbersome and takes a lot of dev time.

Better way to do is to use yarn link: You have to simply do these steps:

In PublicLab.Editor folder project run yarn link
In plots2 folder yarn run PublicLab.Editor

If you have watcher running in PublicLab.Editor project, that will build /dist folder everytime you do a changes, then these changes will be automatically be visible to plots2 repo because a symlink is created between PublicLab.Editor folder and plots2/node_module/ PublicLab.Editor folder. Hence saving a lot of dev time and doing development seamless. I hope this helps to understand the flow 😄

Thanks @Janitham97 @ebarry @Shulammite-Aso 🚀

Oct 19 '20 18:10 sagarpreet-chadha

I did yarn link in PublicLab.Editor folder success Registered "publiclab-editor". info You can now run yarn link "publiclab-editor" in the projects where you want to use this package and it will be used instead. Done in 0.40s. But I can't see plots2 folder in PublicLab.Editor. Sorry for If I made any wrong

Oct 20 '20 10:10 Janitham97

Hey @Janitham97 , plots2 is a different project where PublicLab.Editor is used: https://github.com/publiclab/plots2 If you understood the flow, you can work on documenting it if you like 😄

Oct 20 '20 10:10 Sagarpreet

Can anyone assign me a beginner-friendly issue?