Proposal: bring all code from JScad repostitories into this one

The issue:

More and more people are trying to contribute to Jscad, but the multiple repositories setup is making that considerably harder than it needs to be. The split to different repositories was needed when originally trying to make the large code base manageable, but now we can have the advantages of multiple smaller modules with a single repo thanks to Monorepos/ Lerna.

Proposal ?

The idea is this

• we bring at least @jscad/io into the current repository
• the files would be at package/io/ and keep their current structure, so something like
  • packages/io/stl-serializer
  • packages/io/svg-deserializer
  • etc
• this means:
  • a single monorep
  • a single command to set up a development environement
  • less issues and complexity
• not too sure about Csg.js , perhaps we can see to that after V2

[gilboonet]

@BarbourSmith What I did was quite straigthforward. I reused the svg output into a call to a function called svg2gcode from a github project called gcode simulator. As it was using three.js, I needed to include 7 js to index.html, and as I’m using a laser cutter without Z axis I tweaked svg2Gcode to remove this, and that’s it. It’s targeted to version 0.5.0 of jscad and I didn’t use github at this moment. Now with node there is certainly an easier way to do the same directly from a cag. You can see it here : http://gilboo.carton.free.fr/OJSC5/

[hg42]

I also found confusing that the main component (csg) is in it’s own repo, while web, cli, desktop are together. So, I already moved csg.js to package/csg by cloning it as a sub-repo, because then it’s managed automatically by lerna. Unfortunately when changing a branch in OpenJSCAD.org it was removed again.

I am still in the steep learning phase according to all these node tools. I also only got a glance on git sub-modules.

However, wouldn’t it be possible to have the packages in packages/* as git sub-modules while managing the packages with lerna? I hope, this would combine all advantages. Someone using only a basic package (mainly csg) could do this without bothering with the whole jscad ecosystem, while others could clone jscad as a whole, because the sub-modules can be pulled by the base system. Adding more packages should be made easy, may be like a plugin system, so that users could also add such packages. I don’t know if lerna handles sub-folders. This would be useful to organize all the packages, e.g. user plugins could go to a separate folder and cli, web, desktop could be moved to “frontends” or similar.