# Backendless search and website generator from activity bundles prototype

## Instruction to use

Steps:
1. Download & extract this app store repository
2. run main.py script in generator folder as:

```
$ python3 main.py "/bundles/directory" "/website/template/root/directory/
```

All sub-directories of bundles directory will be scanned for activity
bundles i.e. .xo files.

**WARNING:** for now website template has symblink of search.html as index.html. I do not know if it works in Windows OS. If not, delete index.html and copy search.html as index.html.

**WARNING 2**: error log files and info.json file will be saved in website root directory for now. delete them if not needed.

**WARNING3:** In prototype, paths are written in Unix style so likely won't work on Windows. This will be corrected after some time. For now, you can replace '/' with '\'. Also, I do not think (unsure) current directory is represented as './' (or even '.\') in Windows. So maybe remove that as well.

## Issues
### What should be the license for the project?
I am OK with any FSF approved license which is suitable for Sugarlabs needs.

### Should there be fallback backend when js is disabled in browser for search functionality to work?

## To-DO
- [x] Create search function js file, JSON data file & html page stitching them together
- [ ] NOTE: how will I ensure that results are presented in  some order when more than one search result is of equal standing in term of keywords match/ranking etc. Popularity/download counts or newest/last updated?
- [ ] Python script to automatically add all apps to app store, generate html pages and append entry to JSON search index file.
- [x] Create demo website
- [ ] Add copyright & license information
- [ ] For production version, compress index.json file. Also use compressed version of jquery.
- [ ] in parent directory of website write a script to start static file server serving website sub-directory. This will be used when not using web server such as Nginx or Apache for acting as backend eg. a user can start server from usb stick.
- [x] in live website, a link to download entire website (as pre generated zip file?)