Features/FlightDeck/Client side app
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Status
| FlightDeck as a Client-side App | |
| Stage | Draft |
| Status | ` |
| Release target | FlightDeck 1.0 |
| Health | Blocked |
| Status note | In order to more fully serve FlightDeck's add-on development use-cases, the app should be transitioned to work as an open web app. This would include building XPIs on the client and enabling offline use. |
Team
| Product manager | Daniel Buchner |
| Directly Responsible Individual | Sean McArthur |
| Lead engineer | Sean McArthur |
| Security lead | ` |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | ` |
| QA lead | Stephen Donner |
| UX lead | ` |
| Product marketing lead | Dan Horner |
| Operations lead | ` |
| Additional members | ` |
Open issues/risks
We are currently blocked on the SDK cfx build tool's conversion to JavaScript and the promise of support of this piece of code by the SDK team.
Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
Enable saving data to the client machine that will be used in constructing Jetpack-based add-ons locally. In addition, use these features to enable the app to operate in offline mode.
2. Users & use cases
This feature will decrease build times and allow the developer to continue working when they don't have connectivity.
3. Dependencies
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4. Requirements
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Non-goals
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Stage 2: Design
5. Functional specification
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6. User experience design
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Stage 3: Planning
7. Implementation plan
- Sync, edit, and save packages to IndexedDB
- Rework the front-end code, with the help of the Add-on Builder extension, to sync add-ons/libraries to IndexedDB for editing on the user’s local machine.
- Compile add-on XPIs locally
- With the help of the Jetpack Runner, make it possible for compilation of XPIs to be performed locally on the user’s machine.
- Enable offline use of the app
- Detect and handle the user entering offline mode. Writing of data should save on the file system and sync to FlightDeck servers when a data connection is established.
8. Reviews
Security review
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Privacy review
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Localization review
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Accessibility
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Quality Assurance review
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Operations review
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Stage 4: Development
9. Implementation
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Stage 5: Release
10. Landing criteria
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Feature details
| Priority | P1 |
| Rank | 999 |
| Theme / Goal | ` |
| Roadmap | Add-ons |
| Secondary roadmap | Jetpack |
| Feature list | Jetpack |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | Flightdeck |
Team status notes
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | sec-review-needed | when ready sched w/ curtisk |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
