active-snippets

Active-Snippets

Active-Snippets is a bit advanced snippet manager, written for developers

Demo Link

Details

• Active-Snippets are bit more than a plain piece of text.
• An Active-Snippet consists
  • A template text written in EJS/Embedded Javascript Template template
  • A custom form defnition.
    • A Form genererated using this defnition will be used to get some data
• Once it is created, we can render the given template with custom data

Usage

• Press New button
• Provide Name and Syntax type for the Snippet
• Add/Delete any number of custom form fields
• Press Preview Form and see your custom form. Once it done,
• Provide some sample data in newly generated form and press Apply
• Now type your template in the editor named 'Template Text to be rendered'
• You can see the live preview on the right side.
• in the editor, Inflection.js is available as $i. Which can be used to do simple sting manipulations
• Once it is done, Save the template

Development

Running development server

• open one terminal and run api-server npm run start-api
• open another terminal and run webpack-dev server npm run start-dev

Production build

• Build client side bundles npm run build
• run API server npm run start-api

TODO

• Implement basic Idea and Add/Edit/View capabilities
• Re-write with React.js and do clean-up
• Build a basic website interface
• Replace json-server using API server with a database
• Implement User-accounts and authentication for Edit/Delete
• Testing
• Implement rating mechanism
• Implement forking mechanism
• Implement server-side rendering for SEO