Videos on how to extend Flarum

Ralkage

luceos they are for the courses options, not for his past videos;. Plenty of developers who record lessons/series often keep separate content on their site and YouTube channel (like fireship.io for example) and some straight up use other services like Patreon. Then there's those who host on their own platform and offer course/lesson previews (like Laracasts). Lastly, there are those who go the 3rd party platform approach as well (Udemy, sites that sell courses at a discount, etc) so he can go at this in various approaches.

I would also like to point out that this is subjective to which I sort of hesitated posting an actual response as I was not implying anything to boot. I was just stating my overall preference and opinions from a person who has scoured the Internet for learning material on various subjects relentlessly 🙈💓

clarkwinkelmann

Thanks for the feedback!

The thing with Patreon is that I'm not sure how patient learners will be 😇 I will likely shoot and edit a bunch of the videos at once, but I won't dump them at once on Patreon otherwise it would encourage joining for a very short time then cancelling. But the videos will also be short so most will probably want to browse through multiple ones in a single session, so releasing one per week might not be an optimal format.

Also Patreon won't suffice to list the videos properly, I'll need some kind of website anyway.

clarkwinkelmann

As I don't have any other work planned for tomorrow I'll make a special multi-hours livestream from ~~12h00~~ 13h00 UTC to maybe 18h00 UTC. There will probably be silent parts but I'll comment the interesting things.

I will attempt something I've wanted to do for 4 years: write a modern and native emoji picker for Flarum with Mithril templates. If I get bored, we'll maybe do some work on other extensions.

Come join me, I'll answer your questions from the chat 😃

nxta

I wrote a mithril emoji picker when I did work on your status extension. Let me share what I remember:

Please pick your source for emoji data carefully, I found that a lot of the packages out there have errors in them. Either they are incomplete, have duplicates or for example they don't handle emoji modifiers well.

Also, if you want to include some type of string input filter, I used this technique as I found it to be very performant and easy to implement with mithril like so

m('style',
    { 'type': 'text/css', },
    [ '.ClarkWinkelmannEmojiDropdownMenu li:not([class*="' + this.query() + '"]) { display: none; }' ]
)

Looking forward to watching the video, I might even join the stream live

clarkwinkelmann

I'm now live ! And will be for the next few hours. Drop in when you like !

clarkwinkelmann

End of stream ! Thanks to everyone who joined. It's still far from finished but I managed to get a first working prototype for the picker. And I even managed to not crash my PC (I was a gigabyte away from running out of swap at one point 😱 )

I'm considering streaming the next steps of development tomorrow around the same time.

The source code will be published at a later time. I need to decide on the licensing first. Of course you're welcome to reuse any concept presented in the livestream without having to credit me.

matteocontrini

clarkwinkelmann did you make any progress on the emoji picker then? 🙂

clarkwinkelmann

matteocontrini not much. It's still on my TODO though.

clarkwinkelmann

Next stream tomorrow at 13h00 UTC. I will most likely continue the work on the emoji picker.

Come join me, I'll answer your questions from the chat 😃

clarkwinkelmann

Now live! Join me during the next two hours!

clarkwinkelmann

End of stream. Thanks to the viewers who joined me!

This was the last video about the emoji picker, but it's still not finished. I'm hoping to get the extension ready in the coming weeks.

I'll choose a different topic for the next video. The picker wasn't the most new-user-friendly thing to develop.

Please leave suggestions if you have ideas for very very simple extensions I could develop.

Mark73

clarkwinkelmann I liked the pumpkin carving and catch the fish extensions, some similar interacting forum games would be quite nice 🙂

fakruzaruret

clarkwinkelmann you can make a story extension. Like zuck.js .

matteocontrini

clarkwinkelmann my suggestion above still stands 😃 it should be easy, I guess?

matteocontrini There's a feature I miss: being able to see who deleted a message in a discussion without going in the database. I don't know if it's too easy to build as an extension, but I wouldn't be able to do that, so... 🙂

EDIT: literally now one of my mods asked me "who deleted this post" 😂

Kylo

clarkwinkelmann https://discuss.flarum.org/d/2415-favorites/30 😏

clarkwinkelmann

Mark73 thanks for the feedback!

fakruzaruret sadly way too complex for a 2-hour tutorial. I estimate tens of hours for something like that, and that's without recording.

matteocontrini yeah that would be nice, but I think it would make more sense to integrate that into a proper audit log extension, which itself would be a big piece for a tutorial. That's something I'd love to work on at some point though, probably not on video.

Kylo I'm not sure how to present that into an educational format. While it can probably be done well within one stream, it's mostly mass renaming, and wouldn't really give any insight into how the extension works. Maybe if I make it to be a post-favorite instead of a discussion-favorite this could bring an interesting twist.

clarkwinkelmann

Next stream tomorrow at 16:00 UTC.

I'll be working on an extension that lets you reply with positive or negative comments which I need as part of another of my projects.

Come join me, I'll answer your questions from the chat 😃

luceos

clarkwinkelmann he's back 👏 Good luck tomorrow.

Mark73

clarkwinkelmann I'll be working on an extension that lets you reply with positive or negative comments

Not sure what do you mean by positive/negative comments, but this sounds interesting! I'm excited to see how it's gonna work, I'll try to catch up with the live stream.

clarkwinkelmann

Mark73 too complicated to explain in a few words 😂

I'll give all details during the stream.

The exact implementation will be quite specific to my use case, but the principles used will mostly be about post attributes, data validation and new UI elements. I'll probably release the code for developers but it won't be an extension that can simply be installed on any forum.

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