Is this project still alive ?

[lou-bi]

I'm a webdev learning from the book for two days now, and i've been absolutly amazed how this little tool developped by @patriciogonzalezvivo is so dope, much more straight forward than ShaderToy, and all those little features make learning shaders a real great experience. But despite it, few bugs come along and alter the developing experience.

Is this project still alive ?
I feel like some really low effort could fix the export url and the test button, and I'm not sure if I want to invest on it for now.

Can we hope those to be fixed or should we dive in ?

Thank you anyway, the book + editor is amazing regardless of those tiny bugs

[patriciogonzalezvivo]

Hi! Thanks so much. I'm not working on it and probably not for a while. BUT I would love some help and/or collaborator I can build a relationship with.

The url export right now is stock on some ssl key issue that goes way above what I understand.

Again, thanks for reaching out. Let me know if you are interested

[lou-bi]

Actually, I think I would love to.
I'm quite new to this kind of stuff, and I need to continue the reading of your book, but I'll be glad to help if I can !

[patriciogonzalezvivo]

Fantastic! Do you have experience making web apps with npm modules? glslEditor first of all needs some serious updated in terms of npm packages and way to bundle it all together. Any ideas or preferences on there?

[lou-bi]

I do yes !
I think that the lack of tests in the repo force us to manually test Dependabot's PR. Merge them blindly is surely a bad idea at least for Electron which apparently will be bumped to 8 major version.
The other ones, as minor version, should be ok !

I think we should try to resolves the major problems first (issues basically), for stability purpose, but tests will sure add some ease in the evolution of the app... Maybe some little ones first. Just an E2E with for example some userpath and a screenshot comparison can save us a lot of time in the future !