GSOC_Work_Submission.md

Apps-CLI: Hot Reload during apps development and other Improvements

by Ritwiz Sinha

About Me

Hello! I am Ritwiz Sinha, a Junior BTech Computer Science student at Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT Patna).

Contact:

• LinkedIn
• Email:- ritwizsinha0@gmail.com

Special thanks to my Mentors and community:

• Douglas Gubert
• Shiqi Mei
• Rodrigo Nascimento
• Sing Li

Aim

The project aims to improve/add the functionality of hot reloading during development, creation of templates for repeated code on the user end, and improve the overall experience of app development in the CLI tool used for the creation of apps within rocket.chat.

Link to pull requests highlighting separate changes

1. Hot Reload for Development

• Add basic functionality for Hot reloading
• Add config file for storing login credentials, url and other important information
• Added option to add list of files to ignore during apps development
• Added helpful and clean error messages

2. Boilerplate code for repeated actions

• Added boilerplate for Slash Command
• Added boilerplate for Settings
• Added boilerplate for API extension
• Added helpful error messages
• Relocatedd hardcoded files from the main implementation.

3. Added autocomplete feature

• Added autocomplete package
• Added instructions in readme for installation

4. Updation message on rocket.chat server regarding app update

• Message for app updation on the server whenever there is an app update or installation/

5. Added Icon option in Rocket.Chat apps

• Developers now have the option to specify image icon in the creation of apps itself
• Implemented before the GSoC period

Note:- All of these Prs are not merged yet.

Link to my fork for the CLI

Hello, Can I contribute to this project?