codesandbox / codesandbox/codesandbox-client
Sandbox folders should show the total sandboxes and not just the 1st level sandboxes
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Description
🌈 Feature
Sandbox folders should show the total sandboxes and not just the 1st level sandboxes, Currently, nested sandboxes within sub-folders are not part of the number of sandboxes shown beside the folder name.

We can calculate the sandboxes on the front end or get the same from the API.
I can open a PR for this if we chose to calculate them on the frontend using the path property
For folders with /CSS in the path, the count of them will be added and the total count will be shown for the "CSS" folder.
{
"data": {
"me": {
"collections": [
{
"id": "8d3a2ea4-e5ca-4a8c-abe2-a04593fddf3c",
"path": "/CSS",
"sandboxCount": 7
},
{
"id": "db85311a-67b0-4833-9400-891a3e0dd620",
"path": "/CSS/examples",
"sandboxCount": 1
},
{
"id": "543acbc0-6b5e-458f-bb09-931c4a7209ef",
"path": "/CSS/overflow",
"sandboxCount": 0
},
{
"id": "0ed3de54-0d3b-4ddd-ac88-4cd79fa76964",
"path": "/CSS/tutorial",
"sandboxCount": 4
},
]
}
}
}
Over here the total Count will be : 12.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing how collection folders render their sandboxCount in the frontend and how the collections data is supplied by the API. Decide whether nested counts should be aggregated client-side from each path or returned by the API. Done means a folder count includes sandboxes in all nested subfolders, including folders with zero direct sandboxes.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, react
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100