Skeleton Selector

[balupton]

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[balupton]

I'd like to look into this a lot more now, as it is a huge limiting factor with our skeleton selection that via the CLI we don't have screenshots.

We could completely control DocPad via some interface provided over HTTP, the question would be how?

• Should it be an inbuilt interface like the CLI is? Can be done now.
• Should it be a plugin? If so, it would need to be installed globally? Needs time.
• Should it be its own global package that utilises the DocPad core? Could be done now. Although, it implies that the CLI interface should also be its own global package.

[balupton]

@chase @greduan any ideas?

[greduan]

So wait. This is meant to be a "here's this skeleton which looks like this" kinda thing right? Wouldn't doing it through the CLI work but provide a goo.gl link to an image or to the homepage of the skeleton be enough?

[balupton]

Yeah it would, but ideally having something like this would be great:

You can also open http://localhost:9777 to pick your skeleton (it has previews!)

Then they go to that url and get something like:

[greduan]

Hmm... Then personally I think it should be a global plugin. If you make enough new websites that something like this is useful then I think installing an addon is good enough. Or you can stick with the current CLI version. That's jut my opinion though.