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Doxa Maps bad6991b03 D3: the bus can point at a record without choosing it SPEC-DASHBOARD-KIT D3, and the last of the three decided-not-built items. The bus carried two coordinated channels — filterSet NARROWS scope, selectionSet MARKS individuals — and was missing the third: hoverKey POINTS at the one record under the pointer. It is how a reader sweeps a table and watches the map answer without choosing anything, and kepler.gl treats hover as a configured interaction beside filters for the same reason. IT IS A PLAIN ref AND NOT A SET, AND THAT IS THE WHOLE DESIGN. Hover fires on every mousemove across a 2,107-row table. selectionSet had to become a plain Set with a version counter precisely because a reactive collection fires per element; a single ref has none of that problem — one dependency, one write, no iteration. A repeat is a no-op, so an unchanged value never wakes a panel. HOVER IS NOT SELECTION, AND MUST NEVER BECOME IT. The cheap implementation is to put the key in selectionSet "just while hovering", and every consequence of that is bad while none is obvious at the call site: useSelectionCamera watches selectionVersion, so a hover would fly the camera at every mousemove — the resize-strobe bug wearing a new hat, on a Driver who is photosensitive. The CSV exporter reads selection > filter > all, so a hover would silently change what an export contains. The table's selection pill and the shell's live region both report selection counts, and both would narrate the pointer. So a panel may fade or outline on hover; it may not fly, select or filter. NO PANEL IS WIRED, deliberately, and I want that on the record rather than left to be noticed. D3 says panels opt in, and the first opt-in belongs with a consumer that has a reason: wiring one into Big Picture speculatively would be a visual change to the flagship that no reader asked for, landed while the kit stack is paused. That does leave a channel nothing uses — the same criticism I made of the unmounted filter chips — so the difference has to be earned rather than asserted: this is a documented, gated contract with its first consumer named, not a component that was quietly orphaned. check:hover-channel is what makes it a contract instead of dead code; the first panel to use it inherits the rules instead of inventing them. Three mutants, all caught: routing setHover through selectionSet, dropping the equality guard, and removing hoverKey from the returned surface. SOURCE ONLY. Stacked on landing 2. No rebuild needed — nothing renders it yet.		2026-09-27 02:17:35 +00:00
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all-people-groups	A bare-host embed under ?lang=ar now renders Arabic here too	2026-09-27 02:17:35 +00:00
big-picture	Big Picture: the live count speaks, and the locale reaches the children	2026-09-26 22:06:58 +00:00
cities-internet	cities-internet takes the locale-honouring fallback, and drops its English copy	2026-09-26 22:06:59 +00:00
country-posters	Country posters: a religion search names the family in the reader's language	2026-09-27 01:10:49 +00:00
dashboard-plus-grid	Decouple prose: no go-base / nuxtbase / nuxtinator / doxa-base names in plugin comments and docs	2026-09-26 17:28:45 +00:00
demo-map	C2: one library helper for per-engine projection, across 12 call sites in 9 plugins	2026-09-26 08:39:53 +00:00
doxa-maps-spa	Decouple prose: no go-base / nuxtbase / nuxtinator / doxa-base names in plugin comments and docs	2026-09-26 17:28:45 +00:00
doxa-research-map	The number's job was wrong, not its value	2026-09-27 02:17:35 +00:00
doxa-simple-map	Six entries hand-rolled the RTL text plugin; the library already installs it	2026-09-26 13:35:57 +00:00
doxa-vision-card	Doxa Vision Card: take the page language from profile-config lang as well as locale	2026-09-26 01:10:51 +00:00
golden-path-check	golden-path-check: walk the develop-a-plugin-and-see-it-live path end to end	2026-09-22 03:55:18 +00:00
gospel-resources	Every shipped link has evidence, and 1,412 of them did not	2026-09-27 01:26:50 +00:00
key-cities	Key Cities (gated): the map, list, tables and posters speak the reader's language	2026-09-26 03:34:30 +00:00
my-upg-100-list	Merge main (studio landing 6) into packet/vertical	2026-09-27 01:39:28 +00:00
people-groups-grid	The second consumer drops its copy of the highlighter	2026-09-27 01:16:50 +00:00
plugin-studio	Plugin Studio rail laid out like plugin-designs/: one folder per bundle, its elements inside	2026-09-26 12:23:49 +00:00
pplr-data-maps	One guarded translator, and the fallback catalogue nobody needed	2026-09-26 22:06:57 +00:00
prayer-walk-planner	Export gate reads the tree name from the build config	2026-09-25 21:32:35 +00:00
regions-dashboard	A bare-host embed under ?lang=ar now renders Arabic here too	2026-09-27 02:17:35 +00:00
research-dashboard	The layout drag was LTR-only, and my own migration was too eager	2026-09-27 02:17:35 +00:00
research-map-plus-grid	D3: the bus can point at a record without choosing it	2026-09-27 02:17:35 +00:00
stack-demo	Decouple prose: no go-base / nuxtbase / nuxtinator / doxa-base names in plugin comments and docs	2026-09-26 17:28:45 +00:00
template-bundle	template-bundle: the starter's first screen is now a real map	2026-09-26 04:38:12 +00:00
upg-neighbor	One guarded translator, and the fallback catalogue nobody needed	2026-09-26 22:06:57 +00:00
wall-of-people-groups	One pinned-UMD loader for PPLR and the Wall: library/utils/loadPinnedUmd.js	2026-09-26 07:24:25 +00:00
.gitkeep	Rename app-profiles -> plugin-designs; build green under new naming (load-bearing paths updated, guards pass)	2026-09-17 18:18:18 +00:00
README.md	plugin-designs/README: the tree is dx-maps, and a bundle's tag is its folder name	2026-09-26 01:19:53 +00:00

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 .vue profile is the Vue instance for that map) and that map's own non-reusable components (in src/). Nothing here leaks to another map.
Many maps per bundle. The bundler bundles one map or many — add another flat .vue and 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 profile field — 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 in plugin-designs/<your-map>/src/colors/ (start from template-bundle/src/colors/example-mode.js). Never edit @map/colors/ to recolor your map.
API — your map reads its data from the profile-config on the page, so the same bundle points at different data with no rebuild. DataSourceManager accepts csv (bundled file), api (one JSON URL), or rest-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/. Use useI18n() for strings and RTL_LOCALES for 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 .vue per bundle (simplest).
Parameterized — one profile, behavior driven by profile-config props (e.g. tabs[]).
Nested — one profile that renders others (workbench-style, like doxa-research-map).