What is the designed procedure to publish the views?

[nestormata]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is per design, but in the documentation is mentioned that we should versioning the views files under the vendor directory. If this is the intended option I think is a little messy, the whole point of vendor is to be able to not version it, but instead pulled when necessary, trying to versioning files there may be a conflict when updating versions. I think the best option would be to publish the views locally using the standard Laravel functionality and then customize them there.

Note: This module seems pretty promising, thanks for the hard work.

[fulopattila122]

Hello Nestor,

thanks for opening this issue. I'm not sure if I completely understand your concern. Could you please point me to the point where this:

documentation is mentioned that we should versioning the views files under the vendor directory.

can be read?

Cheers

[nestormata]

Hi, I've been getting familiar with your project in these last few days. I like it.

Here is what I mean: In the documentation, under "Configure PhpStorm For Properly Editing Sources In Vendor" you are telling us to edit files under the /vendor/ directory to customize the views.

In general terms with Composer and in specific terms in Laravel this is asked to be avoided. As a rule of thumb, you should not touch files under /vendor/ because those files will be overwritten with any update or install, so this is discouraged.

There is a way thought, that you can set the files to be "published" to the local resources/views/vendor directory and if Laravel finds that the file requested is indeed there it will use that version instead of the one under /vendor/ .

So, instead, I think you should set the files to be published and document the step that publishes them and indicate where to find them.

Best regards, Nestor

[fulopattila122]

Ah OK, now I see it. That was a note actually for ourselves, for developing AppShell itself, not the application with AppShell. Will remove it in the next hour.

[nestormata]

Oh ok, I see. What I did in my case, for now, was to copy over the files manually to ./resources/views/vendor/ and all worked just fine and I was able to customize them.

[fulopattila122]

Yes, that's perfectly fine. I have plans to make the whole thing themeable, but have no ETA for that yet. Hopefully I'll be able to finish the settings/preferences feature this weekend. Keep checking the repo ;)