Fair number of community registry packages aren't working right now.

[donmccurdy]

I just tested a couple from the A-Frame homepage:

• [x] leap-hands
• [ ] audio-analyzer
• [ ] firebase
• [ ] firebase-broadcast
• [ ] json-model
• [ ] mountain

(items crossed out are now fixed)

That leap-hands is broken is my own fault; I ignored the dist folder in .npmignore. The others seem to have various issues, some missing on NPM, some throwing JavaScript errors.

Not sure how feasible it would be to test entries in an automated way.

[ngokevin]

Thanks. Hmm, how did you test them, via Inspector?

Not sure curation can be automated, but it's a lot of work.

[ngokevin]

Hmm maybe in the future, a way of reporting broken components on the Registry

[donmccurdy]

Yeah, I just opened the inspector and tried to add those components. I think we could automate a test ensuring that the dist file exists (which was the problem for at least two of these), but the JS errors seem harder to catch.

[ngokevin]

OK, ensuring the dist sounds easy at least. I'm not sure if through the Inspector is a common way to consume components anymore, so some of them might not be set up to work on Inspector.

[donmccurdy]

What do you mean by 'set up to work on inspector'? I guess some of mine do export something like:

AFRAME.registerComponent('foo', {...});

.... which assumes that AFRAME is in the global scope, and would break for webpacked sites.

[ngokevin]

For example firebase components aren't really Inspector friendly, not tested there. I do have the inspector: false option, but that's not listened to by Inspector yet.

[donmccurdy]

Oh I see, makes sense.

[fernandojsg]

It seems alongpath doesn't work either https://github.com/aframevr/aframe-inspector/issues/464