Public CDN support

[tobias-kuendig]

It would be great to be able to include the keyboard from a public cdn like cdnjs.com

See https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#d-adding-a-new-library

Is there any support planned?

[Mottie]

Hi @tobias-kuendig!

Well, I started trying to add this repo to cdnjs...

• The npm auto update code was added to the package.json (ref).
• I forgot how unwieldy it was to deal with the size of cdnjs, but I discovered use of a sparse checkout and shallow clone - the repo still ended up being about 1GB in size.
• Then I discovered the documentation was missing the "filename" requirement for autoupdate because I couldn't get my tests to pass.
• So I opened a PR: Add missing "filename" requirement for autoupdate cdnjs/cdnjs#6765, and started waiting for that to get merged before adding this repo because it would be added to that PR since cdnjs doesn't appear to use branches.
• Then I forgot about it 😁

So, maybe it would be easier to request they add it.

[Mottie]

Actually, the issue is that I couldn't get npm test to pass...

see cdnjs/cdnjs#4961 (comment)

[Mottie]

Ok... see cdnjs/cdnjs#7010!

[Mottie]

Done! https://cdnjs.com/libraries/virtual-keyboard

Thanks again!

[tobias-kuendig]

Awesome, thank you!