Hacking on the explorer graphql API (and frontend)

Hey, unrelated to this exactly - but could the Explorer be put into the VS Code plugin?

frontend re-work, using svelte rather than React, gives a lot less and easier to work with code 🙂 (theme/colors tbd)

Me neither, but having a Pants documentation explorer directly in VS Code seems useful. Like, a tree-view menu, which goes through all available subsystems, goals, etc

Ah, yea sure. as long as the backend server is up and running, the vs code plugin could issue graphql queries to get the data to present somehow…

Awesome

Maayybee… vs code can present something like an iframe..? in which case you could pull in the explorer ui directly in vscode.

So, the docs themselves would be whatever the VS Code equivalent of an iframe is (which I believe they have). The side nav part, if it can hook into auto-complete, would be pretty slick

we can have pretty slick search features in the api, to support feeding the data we want to whereever, I’m all into that 🙂 (not using VS code myself though… so I would stay on the backend side of the fence 😛 )