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pattern-lab / styleguidekit-assets-default

The static assets for the default StyleguideKit for Pattern Lab. Contains styles and mark-up for Pattern Lab's front-end.
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'storefront' mode architecture? #104

Closed bradfrost closed 6 years ago

bradfrost commented 6 years ago

I'm beginning to think through how the storefront mode (essentially a style guide mode used for documenting patterns and documentation rather than for tinkering with pattern code) within Pattern Lab will work, and I'm writing this as a question/start of a conversation.

In essence, the style guide mode for a component detail will look something like this:

PATTERN TITLE
Pattern description and possibly some other stuff

[ LIVE PATTERN ]

Documentation and other stuff.

I'm finding that while a lot can be accomplished with only CSS modifications to PL's shell, there are a few areas that I think would require some significant changes to the markup and source order.

So my question to @bmuenzenmeyer and @EvanLovely is: how do you see this happening? Is it possible to render a different template for the storefront compared to the workshop? Or do we have to get creative with what we already have?

And one last-but-not-insignificant point is how to generate both versions? The thought is the workshop is the default, and then there would be a flag in the command to build out the storefront, which would consume a different (or subset) config file. Interested to hear from you how you think this would work.

bmuenzenmeyer commented 6 years ago

Hey Brad - thanks for starting this conversation - I definitely want to frame it up soon. I have a general outline in my head - hopefully you can stand to wait a few days?

bradfrost commented 6 years ago

@bmuenzenmeyer yeah, absolutely! Definitely interested in hearing your ideas. I'll do my best to draw out some of the ideas tumbling around in my head.

bradfrost commented 6 years ago

Closing this out as we're moving this to its own discussion over here: https://github.com/pattern-lab/the-spec/issues/38