[Announcement] - Support for frameworks and libraries

[dostonnabotov]

What feature would you like to see?

Hey, there! 👋

We see that there's a demand from our community to include frameworks and libraries as well. Since we recently changed our snippets storage system, it makes adding support for frameworks and libraries much easier.

Here's the draft version of what it could look like:

Explanation

If the user clicks on the dropdown next to JavaScript, it will expand to show the frameworks. If the user clicks on the JavaScript itself, it will show the default behavior (snippets within JavaScript).

Benefits

A great thing about this approach is that we don't have to make much changes to storage system we recently implemented. We might have to add relationships to frameworks, so, they are in correct language dropdown.

If you’ve got suggestions or ideas, feel free to share them here. We’ll keep this issue updated as we implement this feature. So, stay tuned. 🚀

[ACR1209]

Cool feature! Could I work on this?

[dostonnabotov]

Cool feature! Could I work on this?

@Mathys-Gasnier, did you start working on it as well?

[dostonnabotov]

Cool feature! Could I work on this?

Yes, of course. Please share your thoughts on how to implement it. So, our maintainers can confirm it. Once confirmed, then, feel free to make a PR.

[ACR1209]

Cool feature! Could I work on this?

Yes, of course. Please share your thoughts on how to implement it. So, our maintainers can confirm it. Once confirmed, then, feel free to make a PR.

Well, I see two main ways of doing it: 1) the easy way considering each framework as it's own "language" and just adding optional metadata to the language to set relations, or 2) allowing for categories subcategories that would accomplish the same thing. Personally I would prefer the first one as it seems better in terms of creating snippets and in ease of development; plus it would allow for other language metadata later on.

On the other hand, regarding the UX of the mockup presented, I don't know if it's better in this case to have the default value as a option like "Vanilla Javascript" as it wouldn't be clear for the user if the option expands the frameworks, selects plain JavaScript or both.

[Mathys-Gasnier]

I've already kinda started working on the backend of it.
What i'm doing is taking folders with braces [folder] and adding them in a subLanguages field in each language.
This will change a bit the structure of the json, I will fix existing use cases of the json, but if you want i can leave you to make the frontend changes to support those subLanguages in the select. I will let you know when the first half is merged

[ACR1209]

I've already kinda started working on the backend of it.
What i'm doing is taking folders with braces [folder] and adding them in a subLanguages field in each language.
This will change a bit the structure of the json, I will fix existing use cases of the json, but if you want i can leave you to make the frontend changes to support those subLanguages in the select. I will let you know when the first half is merged

Ok, sounds good

[Mathys-Gasnier]

@ACR1209 The PR adding the support on the "backend" of this feature is merged, if you still want to open a PR updating the frontend, feel free to do it

[ACR1209]

@ACR1209 The PR adding the support on the "backend" of this feature is merged, if you still want to open a PR updating the frontend, feel free to do it

Ok, I'll work on it!