feat: allow for custom endpoints for plugins

README.md

@@ -32,7 +32,11 @@ To develop plugins for the interactive viewer, run:
 git clone https://github.com/HumanBrainProject/interactive-viewer
 cd interactive-viewer
 npm i
-PLUGINDEV=true npm run dev-plugin
+npm run dev-plugin
+
+/* or define your own endpoint that returns string of manifests */
+PLUGINDEV=http://mycustom.io/allPluginmanifest npm run dev-server
+
 ```
 
 The contents inside the folder in `./src/plugin_examples` will be automatically fetched by the dev instance of the interactive-viewer on load. 

package.json

@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
     "build-aot": "GIT_HASH=`git rev-parse --short HEAD` webpack --config webpack.aot.js",
     "build-min": "webpack --config webpack.prod.js",
     "build": "webpack --config webpack.dev.js",
-    "dev-plugin": "PLUGINDEV=true npm run dev-server & node ./src/plugin_examples/server.js",
+    "dev-plugin": "PLUGINDEV=true npm run dev-server & npm run plugin-server",
+    "plugin-server": "node ./src/plugin_examples/server.js",
     "dev-server": "webpack-dev-server --config webpack.dev.js --mode development",
     "serve-plugins": "node src/plugin_examples/server.js",
     "test": "karma start spec/karma.conf.js"

src/atlasViewer/atlasViewer.dataService.service.ts

@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ export class AtlasViewerDataService implements OnDestroy{
   public promiseFetchedPluginManifests : Promise<PluginManifest[]> = new Promise((resolve,reject)=>{
     Promise.all([
       PLUGINDEV
-        ? fetch('http://localhost:10080/allPluginmanifests').then(res=>res.json())
+        ? PLUGINDEV === 'true'
+          ? fetch('http://localhost:10080/allPluginmanifests').then(res=>res.json())
+          : fetch(PLUGINDEV).then(res => res.json())
         : Promise.resolve([]),
       Promise.all(
         BUNDLEDPLUGINS

typings/index.d.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ declare module '*.css' {
   export = contents
 }
 
-declare var PLUGINDEV : boolean
+declare var PLUGINDEV : string
 declare var BUNDLEDPLUGINS : string[]
 declare var VERSION : string
\ No newline at end of file

webpack.staticassets.js

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ module.exports = {
   },
   plugins : [
     new webpack.DefinePlugin({
-      PLUGINDEV : process.env.PLUGINDEV ? true : false,
+      PLUGINDEV : JSON.stringify(process.env.PLUGINDEV),
       BUNDLEDPLUGINS : process.env.BUNDLEDPLUGINS
         ? JSON.stringify(process.env.BUNDLEDPLUGINS.split(','))
         : JSON.stringify([]),