ACA Extension Development Javascript-Console & Node-Browser

[shazada]

So you want to create an ACA extension and your own libraries?

We'll show you how with an awesome Community Repo

You probably haven't seen myold blog: https://hub.alfresco.com/t5/alfresco-content-services-blog/alfresco-community-admin-tools/bc-p/31552... at that time we were just nerding and wanted to get rid of the /share Javascript-Console (who hasn't used that ).

The problem with that project was:

• We were only using it internally
• The github repo was a manual copy of our internal gitlab
• It was a full custom app based on ACA, but the app didn't look anything like ACA. So most of the things where disabled
• We were using a mono-repo so we couldn't share all code

So we started with the following steps

• Create a new repo we could share with the community
• Create new libraries
  • So we could use these libraries like the JS-Console in our custom apps and customer apps
• Create a Demo-App to test these libraries
• Moved to code to the new repo and libraries
• Create a pipeline to build and release the libraries
• Use the newly created libraries in our own apps

This brought us this cool project/Repo https://github.com/Contezza/contezza-apps-community

I'm not going to copy and paste the Readme here, go read it there. So you can basically start the app, see how we extend ACA/ADW and build your own libraries and do the same.

In the future:

• Sync our gitlab repo to github so everyone can keep in sync
• Maybe create an ACA+ Community app with all community libraries under Alfresco or OrderOftheBee umbrella
• Make the releasenotes in English
• Move the JS-console code and package it in a jar, so it people can use it directly in the platform --> need community support on how to do that. we can build a war from the app, but package it in a jar with no auth issues --> not sure