Shared Workspaces and Contexts (Theme Packs)

[thescientist13]

Type of Change

• New Feature Request
• Documentation / Website
• Improvement / Suggestion
• Bug
• Other (please clarify below)

Summary

There have been a couple discussions and opportunities observed coming out of #508 / #509 and while working on a private project idea of my own

• plugin-graphql added the support to merge custom schemas provided by users in a data/schema/ directory in the user's work space. Could plugins get that support as well, so plugins can ship custom queries and schemas? This could could allow for entire plugins of functionality like adding a photo gallery that could handle mapping paths to resolvers
• a private project of mine, where sharing templates and pages would allow plugins to provide entire "theme" packs with templates and styles ready to go out of the box

Details

Off the top of my head, I wonder if this is something that could just be done by using ResourceInterface and hijacking any files that you own? Or would you have to open up "context" to support providing additional directories for Greenwood to look at.

For example, to "share" a custom page template for use in a markdown file from a plugin

---
template: 'acme-themepack-splashpage'
---

## Welcome to my site!

Lorum Ipsum

The page template would be able to resolve to something like node_modules/acme-themepack/src/templates/acme-themepack.html

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Not sure if ResourceInterface is enough?

class MyThemePackResource extends ResourceInterface {
  constructor(compilation, options) {
    super(compilation, options);
    
    this.extensions = ['.html'];
    this.contentType = 'text/html';
  }

  // if request matches a file we "own", resolve it
  // ex: `${userWorkspace}/templates/themepackXYZ-splash-page.html`
  async shouldResolve(url) {
    return Promise.resolve(true);
  }

}

Or if Greenwood needs to open up a new API, so creating this issue to track that cases are developed for, and to report back what the developer ergonomics are like and see if something new needs to be made.

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For bonus points, we could also look to incorporate #574 ? 💡