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If I was to create a jQuery plugin site, I would make it a "shopping cart" system where you can pick and choose all the (curated) plugins you want and the site
by windsurfer 15y ago
If I was to create a jQuery plugin site, I would make it a "shopping cart" system where you can pick and choose all the (curated) plugins you want and the site will package it all in a nice zip, provide you with a snippet of code to run it properly, and optionally give you a (paid) hosting of the customized code on a CDN. It could eventually have paid plugins available for further monetization.
- blhack 15y agoPlease please please do this. If you do this, and the interface is good, you'll have a hugely popular website. Do it.
- sarenji 15y agoI agree. When I wanted to make a new jQuery plugin site (until this post!), I planned on being able to view the plugin source online, like on GitHub. Aside from viewing the code and its quality immediately, it would also let us copy-paste plugins that are just one .js file. It's a bit bothersome to have a .zip in that case.
- latchkey 15y agoActually, that is a great idea... why not just make a site that links everything to github? The plugin pages could just be github pages and downloads. Issue tracking? github. Pull requests. github. Makes perfect sense to me.
- mattmanser 15y agoPlease please don't. The mess that is JQuery ui download is evidence enough to avoid this like the plague. Or at least make it incredibly optional.
- brokentone 15y agoAgreed. I still don't understand the jQuery UI download options; despite having used it many a time.
- JangoSteve 15y agoI've been toying with the idea of doing something like that as an optional way to download packages from the site I've been building. I like the way you put it, as a "shopping cart" type system, that's a good way of thinking about it.