Full release of FRC Dashboard

[euhlmann]

While this is certainly a cool idea, I think it could benefit from better addon integration - copying and pasting code isn't really the best way to do addons IMO.

Self-contained addons could include all of their own html, css, and javascript code, and your dashboard could do the heavy lifting to import them instead of the user

[ErikBoesen]

I've looked at doing this a lot of times, but I can't figure out a good way to do it while preserving the customizability of the addons.

Also, since most of the addons require adding a case to a switch statement, I haven't figured out how to begin.

Any ideas?

[euhlmann]

Welcome to software design! Where you try to make sure to retain features while nailing things down into a concrete framework.

You can create an add-ons folder, and within that a folder for each add-on you want to load. In each add-on folder you put an html file with the add-on snippet, a css file, and a js file with the code.
Each js file could look like this

module.exports = {
   name: "MyAddon",
   tag: "my-addon",
   init: function(htmlNode, etc) {
        // js code here
   }
}

Then you could have some custom tags that people can add in their html

<!-- other dash stuff -->
<my-addon></my-addon>

and you can scan for these custom tags and if one matches an addon's tag, replace it with the addon (inject the html and css, then require() and call init)

Just an idea