Instant Apps Roadmap

[OrkoHunter]

v0: Instant Apps are born. Open Source and can be written by anyone!

• [x] Apps are React components in a Create React App project
• [x] Apps are Open Source

v1: Marketplace of apps

• [x] Each app is a unique NPM package. Motivation for this below
  • Apps can have better Metadata. Name, Description. Example Queries, Screenshot URL, Author(s), Unique URL for sharing, Search
  • Easy to identity app's dependencies.
  • It'll be easy to exclude apps with malicious dependencies. (Security, License incompatibility, Very large bundle size, etc.)
  • Apps can be developed outside of this repository. (Private apps can also exist)
• [ ] Felvin Core packages export utility functions, types, Standard UI components.

v2: Server side rendering of apps

• [ ] Ship https://github.com/felvin-search/instant-apps/pull/112

v3: More powerful apps with backend when it's needed.

• [ ] Allow apps to expose a new entrypoint (a backend function) which uses Secrets/API Keys, etc. which queryToData can call.
• [ ] Allow apps to expose functions which can call Linux utilities like ffmpeg, imagemagick (convert) or any other video/audio/image processors.

[OrkoHunter]

(Comment in progress)

Few words on v2: Server side rendering of apps - for anyone willing to pick it up

Prerequisites -

• Do make sure you understand how things work a little more depth than create-react-app. You should feel comfortable
  • connecting the dots from A to B where A is the web development of 2005 -> serving an HTML file in a browser with a static JS file included as a script and B is what we do today -> writing modern complex React components, with JSX, CSS in JS, importing images in JS and all the madness.
  • spend a lot of time on bundlers (webpack etc.), what do they do with