Create a place to paste a Blueprint to spin a new Playground instance

[adamziel]

Blueprints can be pasted after the URL hash, as in https://playground.wordpress.net/#{"preferredVersions":{....

This is a bit of an arcane knowledge. There should be an easily accessible textarea somewhere that also offers some validation on the spot.

CC @mtias

[adamziel]

Related WordPress/blueprints#42

[adamziel]

@sejas built https://sejas.es/playground and the source code is available at https://github.com/sejas/playground-blueprint-builder

[adamziel]

@seanmorris extended @sejas work and added autocompletion: https://seanmorris.github.io/playground-blueprint-builder/ ❤️ I noted some accessibility issues on mobile, likely coming from the Ace editor itself. Maybe they can be fixed, or maybe the answer is to switch to CodeMirror which didn't have those problems.

[adamziel]

Related discussions:

• WordPress devhub blueprint  blueprints#44
• Blueprint review checklist blueprints#42

In particular this comment from @ajitbohra:

would love to contribute. The repo is public https://github.com/lubusIN/wp-playground-blueprint-builder/ need to iron out a few issues.

@sejas had an idea to integrate the Blueprint building experience with the https://playground.wordpress.net/ app – let's coordinate our efforts around the builder experience.

[adamziel]

Some notes about what @seanmorris built:

• ✔️ It would be useful to re-run the blueprint with cmd+s (or ctrl+s on windows)
• ✔️ It would be nice to jump after the terminating quote " after choosing the autocomplete suggestion
• ✔️ In v2 would be lovely if it autocompleted plugins and themes names
• ✔️ It's a pretty slick experience

But first let's see if we can make Ace mobile-friendly. If not, it doesn't make much sense to invest in UX enhancements before switching to CodeMirror.

Also, I noticed it sometimes gets stuck and I don't know why – it could be a Playground issue, but I haven't seen that behavior in other contexts:

[seanmorris]

@adamziel Is this done?

[adamziel]

@seanmorris The builder will sometimes stop progressing and never return success or failure. I'd keep this issue open once that's addressed since it's a blocking problem. I just opened #863 to track that problem.