Hero Manager about reaction HOT 6 CLOSED

@saarmstrong created https://github.com/ongoworks/reaction-hero for this package.

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I've been thinking that this should really be more than a "hero" manager. What if we allow admin to use this to add any content, on any page using this basic package. So it's a CMS, embed widgets, html,etc..

Also design wise, I keep thinking of something along the lines of Medium. A floating + sign that you click, choose content type and go. Just brainstorming a rough vision here...

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Perhaps expanding the scope of this egregiously, here's some thoughts I have extracted from dev chat:

Hero manager, as a content manager:
Where you can add

• pure image / promo banners,etc
• text / html - add a pure html blob
• product - maybe if this weren't a product grid, but some CMS page you could link a product in
• social block - insert some different kinds of social elements, like a twitter feed monitoring a hashtag

flexible positioning

• drag anywhere on a screen, save the dom elements into collection, and re-render with UI.insert/Ui.render in place using those stored elements for positioning anywhere on a page.
• drag sizing of elements.

display logic

• per tag
• per product
• valid date range
• some other logic rules (is logged in, is returning user, geolocation)

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You're getting at what I was saying about needing a generic API for adding content to different zones on the page. I would suggest a reaction-layout pkg, perhaps, which can expose a generic API that lets packages provide additional DOM elements. I think it would be too difficult to allow pure DOM manipulation. It would be easier to define a few zones on each type of page where dynamic content can be added by packages or by the user.

Flow idea:

• Similar to "Add Hero" link that appears right now, reaction-layout could display an "Add Page Item" link in each "zone" on each page, when you're an admin.
• When clicking "Add Page Item", you can choose which type of item. Simple options like HTML snippet or Image from Media library can be built in to reaction-layout. Packages can add their own options, too, so reaction-hero would add a "Hero" type.
• Once you choose a type of page item to add, it is displayed, and since you are an admin, you can edit it in place.
• Any items present on the page can be dragged to a different zone on that page, as @aaronjudd suggested.
• As admin, you also see a form for each item allowing you to set criteria for display (the "display logic" listed by @aaronjudd. Maybe in a popover.

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Moving reaction-layout discussion to #148

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Closing, new functionality that is not a hero manager but will fill this role is coming as part of v0.12

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