Website plugin page needs links to plugin repo/docs

[lewisde]

Description of the problem or steps to reproduce

https://micro-editor.github.io/plugins.html

Clicking on the plugin expands the install instructions but there is no other info outside of searching github. Try looking for Comment 1.06.

Specifications

You can use micro -version to get the commit hash.

Commit hash:
OS:
Terminal:

[DanielPower]

I thought I opened an issue for this long ago, but I guess I forgot to. This has always bothered me too.

[sum01]

Problem is with how the website pulls plugin info. It reads from the plugin-channel's channel.json, which doesn't actually contain the repo's upstream URL.

It could rip it from the README, but that would be quite weird.

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@zyedidia Maybe Micro could allow the repo.json to have an Upstream or Website field, which could then be read by the website.

[zyedidia]

Yeah this has always been an issue with the repo.json specification. It would be nice if a "homepage" field could be provided.

[sum01]

Can a Homepage field be dropped into the repo.json without breaking things, or does it require changes in code somewhere?

[KiranWells]

Pulling the link from the table in the README could be done without changing anything, and would not be too difficult; it would just require some string management.

ex: (pseudocode)

readme = load(README.md)
lines = readme.split("\n")
for line in lines:
  if "|" is in line:
    tablerow = line.split("|")
    homelink  = tablerow[3].strip()

[sertonix]

There now is a Website option so this issue can be closed.