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 2id: "8b29"
 3priority: 52
 4sprint: ""
 5assignee: null
 6status: triage
 7kind: issue
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10# Apex and working directory render in web
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12Today apex manage the rendering of working directory (of HEAD) in web.
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14## Problem
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16Apex is too big (3.4Mo) and make enormous work to render it. I have added an option to not use it but I think every body will want it.
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18## Solution
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20I think render working dir could be done outside apex in another plugin.
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22## Challenges
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24But how to render complete page outside of apex? This new plugin could render `working_partial.html` and apex integrate it in the global layout. But how apex could know about this partial in web?
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26Another choice could be to permit to plugin to talk between them. Like that this new plugin could call to `apex::renderPage()` directly.
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28Or we could introduce `*_partial.html` into gitroot itself.
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30Or we could use something like htmx to manage that.
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32## Other but related
33
34Add an option to link file extension to icon
35Make an option to personnalize icons set https://plainenglish.io/blog/10-icon-packs-for-vs-code