Status Report

[eric-bixby]

Update for 11/26/2022:

I just wanted to give a quick status report on the state of this project. Yes, there hasn't been much activity, but the project is not abandoned. I've been working on stuff "behind the scenes". I reloaded the OS on my development machine and reinstalled everything from scratch. I'm going to do the development for this project 100% in a container and I'm going to segment the dev-env for all my projects for better dependency management. I customized my terminal (got to make things look nice) and experimented with customizing Neovim as an IDE (but I haven't given up on VSCode).
Anyway, now that I got that out of the way, I can start doing some coding again. My goal is to have at least the first beta of the configure-folders update by the end of the year so we can start beta testing it. Don't count on a lot of updates/fixes, but that one is my highest priority.

[eric-bixby]

Update for 12/3/2022:

• Split-up docker process. "docker-build.sh" still does everything, but now "docker-xpi.sh" builds the xpi file without requiring the docker image to be rebuilt. Using docker's "bind mount" feature speeds this up.
• The node stuff for preferences has old dependencies, so I'm thinking of dumping that and re-writing everything in vanilla javascript, but that is a significant undertaking. I think I will push that out to a future version.
• For the configure-folders update, people might want a migration option, but that is going to have all kinds of potential problems. Therefore, everyone should save their folder settings, then manually re-apply them.

[eric-bixby]

Update for W/E 12/11/2022:

• I think I'll make this status a weekly thing.
• I added ESLint to package.json, but after re-enabling, I realized I had forgotten many findings.
• As a convenience, most of the code was previously in a single file, so I split it into one class per file.
• However, I had a hybrid of classes and functions, so I started doing refactoring, but it's going to take at least one more week to get it back to a runnable state again. Got to take a step back before you can move forward.
• I think after this reorganization/cleanup it will make maintenance easier.

[eric-bixby]

Update for W/E 12/18/2022:

• Unfortunately, I didn't get to work on this project this week. However, while working on my fork of a youtube-downloader, I picked up a potential improvement of using docker-compose.yml. When you do "docker compose up", docker will only build the image if needed. Also, you can include the volume mounts (-v) inside the docker-compose.yml rather than using command-line arguments in a script. Not really a big improvement. I just thought it was clever how docker handles this because it is more portable. I probably won't bother.
• Anyway, my youtube-downloader fork is working, so hopefully, more updates next week.

[eric-bixby]

Update for W/E 2/5/2023:

• Sorry, I got distracted with life stuff (holidays, sick, busy, lazy, etc.)
• Since I got the linter hooked up, I decided to refactor AutoSortBookmarks.js (one big file) into smaller files.
• I ran into circular dependencies and that's where I took a break (I know how to deal with this in Java, but JavaScript requires a different approach).
• I know I need to make AsbPrefs.js a singleton.
• However, my current blocker is that Annotations.js has a circular dependency with AsbPrefs.js. I may need to combine them into one class.

[eric-bixby]

FYI... here's the latest es-lint report, just to show you where I'm at in the refactoring process:

/Users/ericbixby/git/auto-sort-bookmarks-webext/src/AsbPrefs.js
111:5 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
169:11 error 'Annotations' is not defined no-undef
170:11 error 'Annotations' is not defined no-undef
172:11 error 'Annotations' is not defined no-undef
177:11 error 'Annotations' is not defined no-undef
179:11 error 'Annotations' is not defined no-undef

/Users/ericbixby/git/auto-sort-bookmarks-webext/src/Bookmark.js
72:18 error 'AsbPrefs' is not defined no-undef

/Users/ericbixby/git/auto-sort-bookmarks-webext/src/ChangeHandler.js
88:7 error 'AsbPrefs' is not defined no-undef

/Users/ericbixby/git/auto-sort-bookmarks-webext/src/Comparator.js
64:9 error Assignment to property of function parameter 'bookmark1' no-param-reassign
64:28 error 'AsbUtil' is not defined no-undef
65:9 error Assignment to property of function parameter 'bookmark2' no-param-reassign
65:28 error 'AsbUtil' is not defined no-undef
78:9 error Assignment to property of function parameter 'bookmark1' no-param-reassign
79:9 error Assignment to property of function parameter 'bookmark2' no-param-reassign
89:9 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
96:9 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
103:11 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
105:44 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
107:21 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
108:23 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
111:15 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
118:22 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
119:23 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
120:11 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
127:14 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
128:7 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
132:11 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
139:13 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
144:13 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
147:23 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
148:25 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
151:17 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
158:24 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
159:25 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
160:13 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
179:9 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
181:16 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
182:9 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
186:36 error 'Folder' is not defined no-undef
186:67 error 'Folder' is not defined no-undef
187:35 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
189:27 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
190:29 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
193:21 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
199:26 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
200:27 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
201:15 error 'Sorter' is not defined no-undef
210:36 error 'Folder' is not defined no-undef
210:67 error 'Folder' is not defined no-undef

/Users/ericbixby/git/auto-sort-bookmarks-webext/src/Folder.js
40:18 error 'AsbPrefs' is not defined no-undef
50:7 error 'Annotations' is not defined no-undef
51:7 error 'Annotations' is not defined no-undef
64:24 error 'AsbPrefs' is not defined no-undef

/Users/ericbixby/git/auto-sort-bookmarks-webext/src/FolderUtil.js
115:18 error 'Annotations' is not defined no-undef
154:25 error 'Annotations' is not defined no-undef
155:36 error 'Annotations' is not defined no-undef

/Users/ericbixby/git/auto-sort-bookmarks-webext/src/Sorter.js
99:7 error 'Annotations' is not defined no-undef
224:9 error 'AsbPref' is not defined no-undef
251:30 error 'AsbPref' is not defined no-undef

✖ 59 problems (59 errors, 0 warnings)

[eric-bixby]

I will try using my GitHub Blog more, so here's the latest status. Also, I'm going to start using branches, so I'll announce on my blog when there's a new version to try.