[Early Access][Web app] metaedit: CKAN meta-file online editor

[avivey]

It's a browser based tool to assist in editing CKAN meta files.

The longer-term goal of the tool is to allow non-technical users to edit these sorts of things directly, without needing to understand git, or even how to write a JSON. This is probably not a huge problem for the modding community, but I have hopes to use the same tool as a base for similar cases[1].

It is (Or, at least, should be) a little more convenient then using a text editor to edit the content directly.

It's very early in it's lifecycle, but it is kinda usable already: You can edit files, save/save as, have multiple "projects" (branches), and issue a pull-request.

The editor is a schema-aware JSON editor: It follows the schema defined for CKAN, and will validate the content before saving.

(For the sake of consistency, the resulting json file has it's keys sorted; This means that consecutive edits of the same file will show up nicely in the diff page. It also means that the first edit will not show up nicely in a diff page).

I would appreciate feedback on usability, and active help on the whole "make it pretty" side - I'm pretty bad at that.

It's live at https://avivey.github.io/metaedit/, and as source at https://github.com/avivey/metaedit

[1] This is actually a pattern I've seen in the real world many times.