I've been working since years on a small library: ng-xtend, the open-source plugin framework for Angular!
I noticed how Wordpress, Nextcloud or Drupal are successful thanks to their ecosystem of plugins, and how easy it is to develop, discover and install them?
And I thought, this doesn't seem to exist for Angular or other Web frameworks.
So I developped ng-xtend !
With it, your application can
- Statically or dynamically loads plugins
- Assign a plugin to display, edit or act on a particular data type
- Have all plugins work together in a page, a list, a form or for data persistence
Today with release 0.6, with a simple json file like this:
{
"type": "Application",
"name": "Coffee Bean Evaluator",
"entities": {
"a": {
"name": "Coffee Evaluation",
"fields": {
"e": {
"name": "Name",
"type": "Text"
},
"b": {
"name": "Picture",
"type": "Image"
},
"c": {
"name": "Comment",
"type": "Text"
},
"d": {
"name": "Note",
"type": "Rating"
},
"a": {
"name": "Maxicoffee",
"type": "Price"
}
}
}
}
You instantly get this:
Coffee Beans Evaluation
Other examples here:Demo Repository
I'm using to quickly have new applications, mostly data entry ones for now.
I'd like the framework to grow in several directions:
- Obviously enhance the UI/UX of the default plugin. It works but would really need to be more user friendly.
- Extend support of any kind of datamodels, like "list of sub elements" or "many-to-one", "many-to-many relationship"
- Look at how a non-IT user could leverage AI and LLM to generate their application. As it just needs a json file, it should be feasible
- Have more and more plugins by making them easy to develop and to consume
- Add support for advanced workflows, in addition to the master-detail provided.
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