upg-100-list builds its map RAW (`new gl.Map`) rather than through
useMapInstance, so it inherits none of the bundle entry's side effects —
including the RTL text plugin. It appeared to work only because the leaf
head PRELOADED the Mapbox peer, which let an entry-time registration
land in time. studio is removing that preload.
⚠ IT IS NOT A UI-LANGUAGE FEATURE, which is why it matters more than it
looks. A basemap draws each place in its OWN script, so over the Middle
East, Iran and Israel MOST labels are Arabic, Persian or Hebrew for
EVERY viewer in EVERY UI language. Unshaped they render reversed — a
WRONG NAME for exactly the groups this map is about — and it fails
silently: no error, no warning, just mirrored text that reads as a font
problem to anyone who does not know the script.
MEASURED with gospel's gate, which PANS to Arabia before judging because
the shaper registers lazily and reads 'deferred' at a world view:
before mapbox ok 58/61 RTL labels shaped
maplibre FAIL 62 RTL labels on screen, shaper 'requested'
after mapbox ok 58/61
maplibre ok 63/63 shaped
★ THE MAPBOX ARM PASSING BEFOREHAND IS THE FINDING. It is the preload
rescuing an entry-time call, so mapbox looks fine today and breaks the
moment that preload goes. MAPLIBRE ALREADY FAILED, with no preload to
rescue it — this was live for every keyless viewer, not only a future
regression. Measuring just the mapbox arm would have read "already
fine".
The install goes after the engine global resolves and before
new gl.Map: with the engine injected lazily, an index.js call runs
before `gl` exists and does nothing at all.
THE GATE IS PARAMETERISED, NOT FORKED. dx-shepherd routed it to the
other raw-map owners (cities-internet, key-cities, RegionCountryMap), so
it takes --leaf instead of hardcoding gospel's. Copying it would have
given each owner a drifting copy of the pan-first logic and the poison
arm — the two parts that needed corrections to get right.
Also carries the leak gate's third correction: the survivors of the
data and facet exclusions were in .rd-lt inside .rd-li and .rd-bl inside
.rd-bar — DashboardChartsRail renders `{{ s.key }}` beside `{{ s.value }}`
over chart.geometry, the same shape as a facet row. Chasing one class
name at a time is how that went wrong three times, so the rule is now
general: an element whose own text sits beside a sibling rendering a
NUMBER is enumerating data, not naming the UI. Section headings and
column titles have no numeric sibling and stay in scope.
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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/doxa-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="/doxa-maps/<your-map>/<your-map>.js"></script>
<doxa-map profile-config='{"profile":"overview","tk":"pk.eyJ..."}'></doxa-map>
<doxa-map profile-config='{"profile":"detail","tk":"pk.eyJ..."}'></doxa-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/doxa-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