1023081 - Make webide more project agnostic

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools Graveyard :: WebIDE, defect)

Description

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

Webide needs to be aware of the type of project it's handling. Everywhere in the code, we find tests like:

> if (packagedApp), if (hostedApp), if (runtimeApp).

We need to have a more generic "Project" class with subclasses.

Comment 1

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

We want to support any targets (main process, child chrome process, tabs, addons, ...).
We want to support projects in a generic way (then we don't have to do the if() described in comment 0).

Comment 2

[Adrian Aichner [:anaran]]

For now I just replicated some properties of my addon's package.json in manifest.webapp

The minimal set for WebIDE to still list it as a project is this:

{
  "name": "Jot Firefox Add-on",
  "description": "Jot Extension for Desktop and Mobile Firefox saves information...",
  "developer": {
    "name": "anaran",
    "url": "https://github.com/anaran/JotFirefox"
  }
}

This allows me to hack on my add-on inside firefox!

All I am missing is integration of git and jpm (npm support really)
/me ducks from anticipated punches

This is just feedback, not trying to extend this enhancement request.

Comment 3

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

WebIDE is slated for removal, so it's unlikely we'll make a change at the moment.