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 2id: "8b29"
 3priority: 52
 4assignee: null
 5status: v0.5.0
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 7
 8# Apex and working directory render in web
 9
10Today apex manage the rendering of working directory (of HEAD) in web.
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12## Problem
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14Apex 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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16## Solution
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18I think render working dir could be done outside apex in another plugin.
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20## Challenges
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22But 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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24Another 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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26Or we could introduce `*_partial.html` into gitroot itself.
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28Or we could use something like htmx to manage that.
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30## Other but related
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32Add an option to link file extension to icon
33Make an option to personnalize icons set https://plainenglish.io/blog/10-icon-packs-for-vs-code
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37`apex::renderPage()` has been implemented