I realized that tax details, campsite types, and campsites pages are all
part of the settings of the company, in the sense that all of them are
set up by a company administrator, and should be under the same item in
the user menu.
The template for these tabs is in the same layout.gohtml file because
i did not want to repeat the tabs everywhere it were used, or i would
forget some of them when adding new tabs, and did not want to add a new
file just for that.
It is inside the “user menu” only because this is where Numerus has the
same option, although it makes less sense in this case, because Numerus
is geared toward individual freelancers while Camper is for companies.
But, since it is easy to change afterward, this will do for now.
However, it should be only shown to admin users, because regular
employees have no UPDATE privilege on the company relation. Thus, the
need for a new template function to check if the user is admin.
Part of #17.
For now, there is only the label, type, and active fields. We will need
some field to hold the area on the map, but this requires #4, and
possibly #6, to be finished.
Part of #27.
GrapesJS was not working: too complex for users and not enough for
designers.
Therefore, we decided to use a simple WYSIWYG widget for the campsite
types’ description, while we will do the actual HTML template with an
external editor. Once that is done, we will convert that HTML to Go
templates and get the description’s content from the database.
Now the pages section has no sense: all the pages will be straight Go
templates. Only the pages for “special things”, like campsite types,
will use the database, and only for some fields, not the whole page.
I simply can not use Gutenberg without having it choking in its own
over-engineered architecture: using it inside a form, submits it when
clicking the button to change a paragraph’s text size; and using the
custom text size in pixels causes the paragraph component to fail.
The issue with paragraph’s custom text size is that block-editor’s
typography hook expects the font size to be a string, such as '12px' or
'1em', to call startsWith on it, but the paragraph sets an integer,
always assuming that the units are pixels. Integers do not have a
startsWith method.
Looking at the Gutenberg distributed with the current version of
WordPress, 6.3, seems that now paragraph has a selector for the units,
therefore never sets just the integer. That made me think that the
components used by the Isolated Block Editor are “mismatched”: maybe in
a previous version of block-editor it was always passed as an integer
too?
I downloaded the source code of the Isolated Block Editor and tried to
update @wordpress/block-library from version 8.14.0 to the current
version, 8.16.0, but fails with an error saying that 'core/paragraph' is
not registered, when, as far as i could check, it was. Seems that
something changed in @wordpress/blocks between version 12.14.0 and
12.16.0, so i tried to upgrade that module as well; it did not work
because @wordpress/data was not updated —do not remember the actual
error message—. Upgrading to @wordpress/data from 9.7.0 to 9.9.0 made
the registration of the 'isolated/editor' subregistry to be apparently
ignored, because the posterior select('isolated/editor') within a
withSelect hook returns undefined.
At this point, i gave up: it is obvious that the people that shit
JavaScript for Gutenberg do not care for semantic versioning, and there
are a lot of moving parts to fix just to be able to use a simple
paragraph block!
It seems, however, that there are not many open-source, block-based
_layout_ editors out there: mainly GrapesJS and Craft.JS. Craft.JS,
however, has no way to output HTML[0], requiring hacks such as using
React to generate the HTML and then pasted that shit onto the page;
totally useless for me.
I am not a fan of GrapesJS either: it seems that the “text block” is
a content-editable div, and semantic HTML can go fuck itself,
apparently. Typical webshit mentality. By strapping another huge
dependency like CKEditor, but only up to the already out-of-support
version 4, i can write headers, paragraphs and list. That’s
something, i guess.
[0]: https://github.com/prevwong/craft.js/issues/42
Part of #33.
For now, this is almost identical to the campsite types, but this
section is for purely informational pages that have no other relation
to the database than “belongs to the same company”.
Part of #33.
Had to export and move PublicPage struct to template because i can not
import app from campsites/types: app already imports campsite for the
http handler, and it, in turn, imports the types package for its own
http handler; an import loop.
Also had to replace PublicPage.MustRender with a Setup function because
the page passed down to html/template was the PublicPage struct, not
whatever struct embeds it. I was thinking more of Java inheritance here
rather than struct embedding.
I need to check that the user is an employee (or admin) in
administration handlers, but i do not want to do it for each handler,
because i am bound to forget it. Thus, i added the /admin sub-path for
these resources.
The public-facing web is the rest of the resources outside /admin, but
for now there is only home, to test whether it works as expected or not.
The public-facing web can not relay on the user’s language settings, as
the guest user has no way to set that. I would be happy to just use the
Accept-Language header for that, but apparently Google does not use that
header[0], and they give four alternatives: a country-specific domain,
a subdomain with a generic top-level domain (gTLD), subdirectories with
a gTLD, or URL parameters (e.g., site.com?loc=de).
Of the four, Google does not recommend URL parameters, and the customer
is already using subdirectories with the current site, therefor that’s
what i have chosen.
Google also tells me that it is a very good idea to have links between
localized version of the same resources, either with <link> elements,
Link HTTP response headers, or a sitemap file[1]; they are all
equivalent in the eyes of Google.
I have choosen the Link response headers way, because for that i can
simply “augment” ResponseHeader to automatically add these headers when
the response status is 2xx, otherwise i would need to pass down the
original URL path until it reaches the template.
Even though Camper is supposed to be a “generic”, multi-company
application, i think i will stick to the easiest route and write the
templates for just the “first” customer.
[0]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/specialty/international/managing-multi-regional-sites
[1]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/specialty/international/localized-versions
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