The Driver's ask, and his negotiating point with the DX-life author depends on it being true: the components cloned from their /regions page must be REUSABLE, PARAMETERIZED components in the shared library, not private to one plugin. He named the failure mode himself — someone opens the regions plugin folder and finds the components are not reusable after all. I checked before building, and for the UI he named he was right: only the DATA and LOGIC had been promoted. So library/components/regions/RegionSectionCard.vue takes title, summary, countries and footerLabel, emits what was clicked, and knows nothing about where regions come from. The plugin version fetched its own data and owned the layout, which is exactly what made it unusable anywhere else. THE DESIGN TRAVELS WITH IT. The card carries the region-card, countries-grid and country-link CSS lifted unchanged — including the RTL chevron rules, where a "forward" chevron must mirror in Arabic while a disclosure caret must not, and where [dir="rtl"] .region-card__icon at 0-2-0 would otherwise beat the 0-1-0 --open modifier. A consumer gets the look, not a lookalike. It needs dir on an ancestor for that mirroring, which is documented in the file as a requirement. ★ THE CARD OWNS THE DISCLOSURE ROW, after the first cut got it wrong. I put the "View country posters" toggle in the consumer's slot — and immediately had to copy the footer-link styling and the rotating caret back into the plugin, re-creating the duplication this extraction exists to remove. A disclosure inside a card is a card feature; only the revealed CONTENT is the consumer's, so PosterWall stays in the slot with its fourteen props and does not become every consumer's API. ★ THE CHEVRON IS INLINE, NOT A <use href="#id">. The plugin declared the symbol once and every card referenced it. A shadow-root id is scoped to that root, so the same card mounted elsewhere would reference a symbol that does not exist — and an unresolved <use> renders NOTHING, silently. The plugin's own comment warns about that class for external hrefs; a cross-root id fails the same way. check:regions-uses-library is registered and asserts BOTH halves: the plugin imports from @map/ and renders the component, AND no longer holds the markup or the CSS it delegated. A reusability claim only a human can audit is one that rots; this one fails the day someone re-inlines a copy. Two negative controls keep it honest — the plugin still uses its own .rl-root classes, and the other tab is asserted NOT to use the card yet, so the check describes what is extracted rather than what I hope for. Two of my own mechanical edits produced valid JS and broken content on the way here, both caught by checking rather than by the parser: a line-numbered splice that dropped PosterWall's closing /> (fixed by locating boundaries by CONTENT), and a line-filtered CSS deletion that left 9 orphaned declarations and braces at 12/21 (fixed by removing rules brace-aware, then re-validating the concatenated stylesheet rather than trusting check:sfc-parse, which only proves the JS parses). |
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| all-people-groups | ||
| big-picture | ||
| cities-internet | ||
| country-posters | ||
| dashboard-plus-grid | ||
| demo-map | ||
| doxa-maps-spa | ||
| doxa-research-map | ||
| doxa-simple-map | ||
| doxa-vision-card | ||
| golden-path-check | ||
| gospel-resources | ||
| key-cities | ||
| my-upg-100-list | ||
| people-groups-grid | ||
| plugin-studio | ||
| pplr-data-maps | ||
| prayer-walk-planner | ||
| regions-dashboard | ||
| research-dashboard | ||
| research-map-plus-grid | ||
| stack-demo | ||
| template-bundle | ||
| upg-neighbor | ||
| wall-of-people-groups | ||
| .gitkeep | ||
| README.md | ||
plugin-designs/ — where YOUR maps live
The shared template lives in ../library/ (aliased @map) — you never edit it per-map.
You build your map by making a folder here, plugin-designs/<your-map>/, and composing the
template's building blocks. Your folder is yours (colors, API, i18n); the template is shared
(Apache-2.0, propagated to every map on the next build).
Shared vs. yours — the balance
library/ (@map) ── SHARED, reusable, parameterized ──► legend · map · map-controls
│ (every map reuses these)
│ imported by
▼
plugin-designs/<your-map>/ ── YOURS ──► the map's "main" class (the .vue profile = the Vue
│ instance for that map)
└── src/ ── YOURS ──► this map's OWN non-reusable components, colors, API, utils
One bundle can hold as many maps as you want — add another .vue profile and rebuild.
- Reusable →
library/. The legend, the map, the map-controls are shared, parameterized components every map reuses. Fix once, every map benefits. Never edit it to customize one map. - This map's own →
plugin-designs/<your-map>/. It holds two things: the map's "main" class (each.vueprofile is the Vue instance for that map) and that map's own non-reusable components (insrc/). Nothing here leaks to another map. - Many maps per bundle. The bundler bundles one map or many — add another flat
.vueand rebuild.
Production or experimental — every profile declares itself
Every app profile is one of two things, and experimental profiles are unlimited and encouraged — create as many as you need:
- Experimental, not built: prefix the folder with
_— the build skips it; it just sits in code. Zero cost, zero risk. - Experimental, built: builds normally, but it belongs in the Experimental section of the power app's layout (nav section) — never embedded on partner surfaces.
- Production: a real product — main sections of the power app + individually embeddable.
(The power app = the SPA layout that composes all profiles into one application.)
The pattern in one picture
plugin-designs/<your-map>/ ← one FOLDER = one BUNDLE, named after the folder
├── index.js ← entry: registers the custom element, finds the profiles
├── overview.vue ← one .vue = one PROFILE (flat in the folder — no profiles/ subfolder)
└── detail.vue ← another profile in the SAME bundle
builds to ─────────────► public/dx-maps/<your-map>/<your-map>.js (one file)
- Folder name = bundle name. Folders starting with
_or.are skipped (handy for WIP). - Each
.vue= one profile (one map screen). One bundle can hold many. - Pick the profile at embed time with the
profilefield — every profile shares one bundle:
<script src="/dx-maps/<your-map>/<your-map>.js"></script>
<your-map profile-config='{"profile":"overview","tk":"pk.eyJ..."}'></your-map>
<your-map profile-config='{"profile":"detail","tk":"pk.eyJ..."}'></your-map>
Add a map — three steps
# 1. create the folder + one profile
mkdir -p plugin-designs/<your-map>
# index.js ← copy doxa-simple-map/index.js, rename the tag
# <name>.vue ← your screen, built from @map/* blocks (flat in the folder)
# 2. build
npm run build # → public/dx-maps/<your-map>/<your-map>.js
# (just this one: BUNDLE=<your-map> npm run build:bundle)
# 3. embed the script tag + element (dev staging at `npm run dev` shows a paste-ready snippet)
Your three things (everything else is shared)
- Colors — how pins are colored. Pick one the template ships (
getColorStrategy('language-family')), or drop your own inplugin-designs/<your-map>/src/colors/(start fromtemplate-bundle/src/colors/example-mode.js). Never edit@map/colors/to recolor your map. - API — your map reads its data from the
profile-configon the page, so the same bundle points at different data with no rebuild.DataSourceManageracceptscsv(bundled file),api(one JSON URL), orrest-api(a live REST endpoint, the default). Prefer the real API over inlined JSON. - i18n — the template ships 11 base locales in
@map/i18n/locales/. UseuseI18n()for strings andRTL_LOCALESfor right-to-left; add or override strings from your own profile.
The one hosting variable
The only thing that changes between hosting modes is the <script src>: a relative path when
your own site serves the file, or an absolute CDN URL when a partner site serves it. The bundle
is identical either way. See ../documentation/CONTRIBUTING.md for the two CDN modes and partner-site embedding.
Profile patterns (mix freely)
- Individual — one
.vueper bundle (simplest). - Parameterized — one profile, behavior driven by
profile-configprops (e.g.tabs[]). - Nested — one profile that renders others (workbench-style, like
doxa-research-map).
See also
doxa-simple-map/index.js— fully commented reference bundle entrytemplate-bundle/— minimal two-profile skeleton to copy../library/colors/README.md— the color-strategy contract../README.md— repo overview & build pipeline ·../documentation/CONTRIBUTING.md— build vs dev, CDN modes