This is something I currently work on occasionally and so far only bits and pieces exist as a rudimentary prototype. Still, I thought I share this in case there are people who are interested programming patterns/OOP in Javascript and like to help to find ways to implement this well (aka with maintainable code).
The tool allows to quickly “sketch” user interfaces. If figma would be a tool for drawing blueprints, this is for quickly trying an idea with sharpie on a sticky note. Ideally, the UI is compact enough to embed the tool in an issue tracker, much like a WYSIWYG-text editor is embeddable.
There is no live-collaboration (since postits are usually to small for several people to draw at the same time!). Rather, there should be the possibility to copy another sketch and alter it. This keeps the collaboration model simple and the history transparent.
What works so far is the basic object model, and drag and drop with auto-grouping which is a neat alternative to stack management with send-forward, send-backward etc.
Code: Not in an easy-to-share way, at the moment! I could push it to github (or some other place) but I have not done so, since only bits and pieces work so far. It would be awesome to consider integration into Forgejo, once it works better.
Thank you, I’ll try to check it out. I didn’t yet manage to take a look at the prototype you sent me earlier, to be honest.
I would like to give it a shot for integration in Codeberg’s build of Forgejo, but it would require a clean licensing. I suggest either MIT or GPLv3+ which are definitely compatible with Forgejo (the initial version you sent to unfortunately was not).
My idea would be to allow attaching this to comments in issue and PR threads, either by keeping the state in a HTML comment inside the comment (so it is hidden) or by attaching it. We have code that renders 3D models from repositories when a certain file ending is found, and I could imagine something similar could work to render your tool whenever an attachment has a specific file ending.
I would probably go with GPLv3. Is AfferoGPL possible?
attaching this to comments in issue…
I dunno what works better in this case – what currently works is serialization/deserialization to JSON (for editable versions) and (not yet implemented) a rendering to an image (it should be easy to implement this, though)
AGPL is currently not an option for Forgejo, because it would depend on us also switching the software license to AGPL. Not impossible to happen, but it would take time at least.
