Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Automatic checking of all MagicMirror² modules
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@KristjanESPERANTO You know, this is turning more and more into a NPM type project.
Perhaps it’s time to work on getting MM into the NPM ecosystem instead?
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@BKeyport mm is already there but old
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I’ve over simplified as I tend to do.
What I was thinking of was more along the lines of how Homebridge is doing things. Full on NPM integrations across the board. GUI installer/maintainer. bonus points for GUI configuration tool on their “plugins” etc. Can still get into the weeds if you want to mess with operations under the hood.
I honestly think it’s time, but I’ve got nowhere near the skill to do it.
MMM-Config on steroids.The pieces are there - we’re just missing the core.
Setting the core up would build in a natural module checking system and weed out the unmaintained stuff for new users, because new users won’t want to install stuff that has no GUI settings and/or unmaintained wouldn’t show in the official repository/search anymore.
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@karsten13 mmpm doesn’t do config editing
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@sdetweil We already have some standards in place (node_helper.js, naming conventions, package.json, etc) - what’s one more (config-schema.json) for the programmer? Think along the lines of the schema.json file used in MMM-Config.
Programmer creates the GUI settings page, using API into a specific file. It’s up to the core to insert result into the main config file. if GUI file isn’t there, then resort to a web based editor.
https://github.com/homebridge/homebridge/wiki/Verified-Plugins describes the process in homebridge’s case. Provide a reward, and bam - We’ve got easier access to the project, making it more widespread, and it completely eclipses the automatic checking process here.
Reward for the programmer is rather simple. A badge set thusly - everywhere - in the built in plugin manager’s search, on websites, etc.
Example - No GUI settings page file (the dead module):
Example - GUI settings page file (my reworked module with more functionality):
and the resulting config (I believe they use JSON rather than JS):
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@BKeyport I believe we use js because you can have comments, json does not support comments
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@sdetweil It don’t matter how it’s done, honestly. JS, JSON - Same diff in my book… I’d just love to see it get simpler, and wrap up some of these projects into one.
