Web Instance

[dan-fritchman]

Thus far the schematic editor runs on two internally-defined Platforms:

• The dedicated Electron app
• The VsCode extension

Given everything in the project uses web-stack technologies, the natural third is the web. This will in principal be very easy to stand up. There are two interesting questions/ groups-thereof (to my eye):

• 1. How to handle "platform interactions", e.g. opening from file.
  • The existing platforms have access to the editor's local filesystem; a web app will not.
  • Popular such apps would often get this content from GitHub, Google Drive, or its own database.
  • "Save" is probably a bit easier, and would presumably be more like "export and download". Nonetheless that also needs to be piped through the browser APIs.
• 2. Where to host and run it.
  • That's in some sense tied to (1), particularly if there is a native datastore of schematics.

[dan-fritchman]

To fit the PlatformInterface - which is basically message-passing - this will also need some kinda bidirectional server-client communication channel. Socket.io seems a popular and relatively straightforward option.

[joamatab]

any updates on the web based platform?

we made this one
https://gdsfactory.github.io/gplugins/notebooks/20_schematic_driven_layout.html