Kirby Component Kit - Poll again. Options, settings or config?

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With Kirby Component Kit you can build your site with components. It’s partly inspired by Patterns, but has some major differences.

I hope the teaser video will give you a good idea of how it works. In the video you can see components of a modified version of the starterkit, which I got permission to use.

Youtube teaser video

Screenshot

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Any feedback is greatly appreciated. :slight_smile:

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Version 0.1 is out!

Now it has been released, free for everyone to try out as long as you need:

Github: https://github.com/jenstornell/kirby-component-kit

How well does the first version work?

I’ve made the whole starterkit “theme” as components. So this plugin is well tested. The last week I’ve been building my new site http://nallepresent.se, which is 100% components as well. Now, I don’t want to build a site without it.

Kirby 3 support

It should not be that much work to port this plugin to Kirby 3. In fact, with the new features that Kirby 3 has, it could be even better. For now it only works with Kirby 2, because Kirby 3 is not yet released.

The screenshot and the video preview in the previous post is still accurate.

Enjoy!

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I need your help to answer a poll

I’m doing big changes so there will be some kind of update and I even have plans to move to a MIT license.

A common component may look like this:

my-component/
├─ blueprint.yml
├─ controller.php
├─ component.php
├─ image.jpg
├─ script.js
└─ style.scss

Autoloading file

It will soon support a file that will autoload before template, snippets and controllers run.

The reason for it is that maybe we have methods that would be better off in a separate file, but still part of the component. Else there would be jump back and forth between the plugins and the components.

What should the name of that file be?

If you have a better idea than these, please add a comment.

  • autoloader.php
  • autoload.php
  • load.php
  • init.php
  • methods.php
  • functions.php

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I voted for one of your options but maybe helper.php is a good name too.

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Thanks for your votes! :slight_smile: I will use autoload.php.

Because of performance and other things I’ve changed syntax of the options from yaml to php. It also looks more like the Patterns plugin. Now it looks kind of like this:

return [
    'page' => page('categories')
];

What is a good filename for options?

  • options.php
  • settings.php
  • config.php

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Both options and settings tells what it’s all about. On the other hand, config is used by both the core and the patterns plugin.