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An online Dart editor with support for console, web, and Flutter apps

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Explore easier sharing mechanisms #2733

Open parlough opened 7 months ago

parlough commented 7 months ago

An issue to discuss potential replacements to DartPad's current gist loading mechanism.

It would be nice if whatever used here could also be used by "Open in DartPad" in lightweight DartPads.

A few ways:

Upload snippet to some database or blob storage

Easy and flexible, but has potential concerns due to storing user-generated content (although anonymous)
Can automatically delete after not being accessed for X-days (entries can be exempted)
Easier to share than using a query parameter
The Go Playground uses datastore
Should be limited in size :)

Query parameter:

Has size limitations?
Hard to actually share. Potentially too large for sharing in some chat areas and social media platforms
No need to store anything on server

Extra:

Besides using query parameters, the Rust playground seems to also support uploading to a shared GitHub gist account?

parlough commented 6 months ago

As a note, the Flutter API docs could then migrate to use the shared mechanism rather than the custom solution we have for them now.