Plug-In Development: gcloud-static-web-host

[stephenplusplus]

From #8 (comment)

...a web hosting UI (for the people who want to use GCS to host static content)...

• @jgeewax

JJ, can you throw down some features you want this to have? My naive vision right now just looks like the Storage browser from the official dev console, maybe with larger icons that more resemble the OS X finder in icon detail mode:

What other common operations can we support? Obviously drag and drop, maybe right clicking icons can bring up a helper menu to toggle public/private, get file metadata, (??).

[jgeewax]

Looks like a really great idea to start.

The main value add here is going to be the help text and (if possible) guided flow to setting up your website. Doing this in the official cloud console requires a bit too much of "knowing what you're doing". We can also maybe provide some 404.html pages out of the box? (Not everyone has those...)

In short, this whole thing will be almost 90% about the details, so it'll be a really long list. The broad strokes will be...

• When I click on the plugin on the left ("Websites"), I should any "websites" that I've registered (aka domains). Maybe a list of buckets + metadata (and check a special metadata field?)
• The list of websites should be different from the GCS list of buckets (think more like ghost.io's listing of your blogs?)
• Creating a new website should be a guided flow to getting everything set up?
• Setting the index.html page should be simple
• Anything else website specific should be really straight forward (not hidden in an "advanced" page)
• For now, let's treat subdomains just like anything else?
• stretch: In the list of websites, maybe we can pull in some Google Analytics stuff as sparklines?
• stretch: Maybe we can plug in a live HTML editor?
• stretch: Maybe we can pull in a "download this URL into my bucket"? (like an import operation?)

I'll keep thinking...