Readme
Some things I'd love to see come to val town (some of these are already on the way according to the team)
- Editing a val's readme through the API
- A command bar (something like paco's cmdk would be dope)
- The ability or programmatically respond to events (like a val being run) right within Val Town
- User defined templates usable right in the val creation flow
- Public folders / ability to add readmes to folders
- Dynamic folders (ala Tana's search nodes)
- Custom val metadata (such as tags)
- A more fully featured markdown editor for readmes
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// @title My Val Town Wish List
import { api } from "https://esm.town/v/pomdtr/api";
import { extractMetadata } from "https://esm.town/v/pomdtr/extractMetadata";
import { extractValInfo } from "https://esm.town/v/pomdtr/extractValInfo";
import { gfm } from "https://esm.town/v/pomdtr/gfm";
import { html } from "https://esm.town/v/stevekrouse/html?v=5";
export async function examplePost(req: Request) {
const { author, name } = extractValInfo(import.meta.url);
const { code, readme } = await api(`/v1/alias/${author}/${name}`);
const title = extractMetadata("title", code);
return html(await gfm(readme, { title, favicon: "🎁" }));
}
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