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Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry

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Re: Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry

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Post by js-coder »

hunvreus wrote: post #25
mk3 wrote: post #10

What I hate, that most of the jQuery plugins have a huge lack of documentation. You select plugin and then spend next day trying to figure out how it's working. It's almost the same as dowloading random js file form random website and trying to use it. Looked through currently available repos, and half of them lack even simple plugin usage cases in repositories :)

That's why I like the component ( http://github.com/component/component ) approach; keeping things to such a minimum feature wise that you can understand very easily what each component does. I love jQuery, but modules tend to be overdoing it on the configuration/options side. Keep things lean and orchestrate.

Component is really really great. It's the hero JavaScript package management needed. :) When it's more mature its dom components will probably replace jQuery for me.

Re: Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry

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Post by ajpiano »

jbrooksuk wrote: post #26

I'm having issues getting my plugins to display, even after adding the service hook, creating the package file and tagging it, it's been hours and yet nothing.

Sorry about the trouble - there are some errors in your manifest file that need to be corrected before it can push to the site successfully. We have been manually triaging invalid pushes and reporting the errors back to authors, as we're still in the process of rolling out better error-reporting to users. Thanks for bearing with us!

https://github.com/jbrooksuk/jQueryLocalStorage/commit/4eca4...

https://github.com/jquery/plugins.jquery.com/issues/11

Re: Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry

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Post by mnicole »

bti wrote: post #24
fourstar wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you keep using plugins, you're probably going to want to understand how they work since you can't always rely on the person developing them. That said, I'm STOKED that this is finally back!

It's the selection process that is annoying. I want to see the plugin working on a simple demo page, especially if it is doing something visual.

Seriously. Don't expect me to read your verbose description; just show it to me.

Re: Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry

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Post by halefx »

kevinSuttle wrote: post #28

Hold on. jQuery has been around for 7 years, and this is just now being put up? Did I miss something?

They had a plugin site running for a long time, but one of the admins accidentally deleted more than half of the database one day when trying to purge some spam, and the most recent backup was over a year old, so they decided to scrap the whole thing and move to a git-based system.

Re: Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry

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Post by stagas »

wheaties wrote: post #19
stagas wrote: post #13

Another registry for Javascript files and another json package description. This is getting ridiculous, you guys (npm, component, bower, volo, ender, jam and now plugins.jquery) should get together and fix this mess.

I whole heartedly agree. Yes, jQuery plugins is trying to be a curated field of "high quality" plugins but at the same time I can only concur with your frustration. Python -> pip, Ruby -> gem, (more but I'm lazy.) These are good things. They make our lives so much better.

Javascript targets multiple domains, unlike other languages, so I understand the issue about consumer installers that build differently. But at least let's agree on a single json and on a single registry where everyone pulls from the same files so that we don't need to push our packages to 10 different registries and write 10 slightly different json descriptions for them.

Re: Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry

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Post by jbrooksuk »

ajpiano wrote: post #32
jbrooksuk wrote: post #26

I'm having issues getting my plugins to display, even after adding the service hook, creating the package file and tagging it, it's been hours and yet nothing.

Sorry about the trouble - there are some errors in your manifest file that need to be corrected before it can push to the site successfully. We have been manually triaging invalid pushes and reporting the errors back to authors, as we're still in the process of rolling out better error-reporting to users. Thanks for bearing with us! https://github.com/jbrooksuk/jQueryLocalStorage/commit/4eca4... https://github.com/jq…

Thanks, however even after changing my manifest to match the tag number etc, I'm still not getting my plugins on the site?
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