PrismJS / PrismJS/prism

Separate repos for plugins, themes, and languages

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Description

Given that our download page uses the Github API anyway and we already have a components.js to keep track of things, what do you think about having plugins etc in separate repos? That way their authors can update them without needing to send PRs to us and we don't need to keep track of authors, we can just use the repo owner.

It seems this is the way big projects with a plugin architecture are going, e.g. Atom. Thoughts?

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Research direction

Start by reading components.js and the download page’s existing GitHub API integration. Determine whether the proposed separate repositories can support plugins, themes, and languages without tracking authors; done would require an agreed architecture and implementation scope, which the issue does not currently define.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
api, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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