Snapshots

[bradfrost]

The Web design process requires us to be able to step back through earlier versions of Pattern Lab to view progress, resolve debates, etc, etc.

A snapshot function would be tremendously valuable. The idea would be to have the latest and greatest version always accessible at the root level:

/

But, if needing to step back through time, we could append to the url:

/v1/
/v2/
/v3/
/etc

That way teams can view progress much easier.

Perhaps there can be a spot for that in the UI (under Settings perhaps)?

[benedfit]

My plan with the .NET version is to extend generate with an extra parameter to specify an alternate path to /public to push everything to

[dmolsen]

@benedfit -

Working on a formal spec this week so I'll add that in as an option we should support. I still like the idea of having a flag that was for snapshot which did everything automatically and in a common format. Then the front-end could pull that in automatically sort of like MQs.

Had forgotten about this so it was a timely comment.

[dmolsen]

rough version in dev. still not the cleanest as i have to rethink some of the template stuff.