Add Custom Route for Custom Code

[osseonews]

Very often we need to fix some small things with custom code in the dashboard apps or add some additional functionality. We can do that now by creating our our Custom app and customizing the various apps in this repo. However, that makes it very difficult to keep up to date with the changes as we need to pull changes and then fix potential conflicts in individual apps. And lets say we need another external package? This makes it harder.

I think it would be great, if you just created something called a custom app, which would live in a custom folder and would have access to all the app elements required for the app, like SWR, checking tokens, elements etc. Make it really bare bones. Then, all the custom code can go in that one folder, and the rest of the app would just stay as is, allowing easy pulling of updates, as only a tiny part of the custom app would change in each update (version updates), while there really wouldn't be any code changes, as it would be a kind of skeleton type app. Thanks.

[osseonews]

Can anybody help with this? How can we add a folder and then make a custom route in the application to that folder? That is a much easier way to do customizations here, as opposed to customizing anything in the core folders.

[osseonews]

Is this what the new my_sample_app folder is for? If so, this will be an amazing addition.

[pfferrari]

Hi, thanks for reaching out on this one.

We are making some changes to our apis, dashboard and apps to support a new generic kind of custom apps that enables developers to create multi purpose apps decoupled from our pre defined dedicated abilities scopes (orders, customers, ecc..) that are currently used by our official dashboard apps and available as well when creating a custom app to reproduce a particular scope in terms of abilities.

Along with this change under the hood, we worked as well to support in our dashboard-apps project the decoupling of the slugs of the apps to let them being kind agnostic. This is meant to enable developers to create new apps with custom slugs and wanted kinds, side by side with our official apps, taking advantages of the structure of the project.

For example you could have:

• Official Customers app:
  kind: customers
  slug: customers

• Customer Service Custom app (based on the customers app permissions):
  kind: customers
  slug: customer-service

• Multi purpose Custom app:
  kind: generic
  slug: my-super-app

We'll update the community once the features will be released.
Stay tuned!

[osseonews]

Thanks. This would be amazing. Any ETA when we can start using? I was thinking we can start already with the generic app. By the way, this would open a huge new opportunity for CommerceLayer because you don't necessarily need a frontend ecommerce site to use CommerceLayer, as with the Admin Dashboard, you can manage many other business functions just thru the dashboard. So this would be very helpful for any business, dealing with customers/inventory etc. The problem has always been that the dashboard didn't have a custom folder, so this kind of use case was very complicated to build and maintain.

[pfferrari]

I suppose that the announce will come by the end of next week. I'll keep you posted.