So I figured I would write a little post to show a few of the “hidden” features of the Gallery and how you can use them.

JS Lint:
Every module that we push to the CDN has to go through our build system that uses the YUI Builder Tool. The Builder concatenates files, then compresses them with YUICompressor and runs JSLint on them a couple of times. We include this output on every build, so you as the end-user can see that output and use it to determine if you want to use the module in your application. If you look at my YQL Module and click the link for the Build Tag (Which is the stamp we give each CDN push), you will see the code that is required to load this module on your page. Just below that you can see a link called “[Show Build Output]“. Clicking that link will show you the raw output generated by the build system.

Loader
Some people have asked why they have to include the config in their YUI instance, to make a Gallery item work.

The short answer is: We didn’t want to release a YUI 3.0.1 just to add a couple of lines to one file.
The longer answer is: When we release YUI 3.1.0, this will be built into the Loader module. And it will be done for you automatically. Since the files are hosted on the CDN, but are not in the same directory as the YUI files are, we had to modify Loader to know about Gallery modules and make it smart enough to change directories to use the CDN.

However, I have built an API into the Gallery to help with this.

This example shows how you can load a single js file from YUILibrary.com and plug it into your YUI instance and have access to all the gallery modules that are currently on the CDN.

API
The Gallery was designed with a pretty robust API exposed to help developers and users get the most out of the data inside the Gallery.
Here is the list of valid API endpoints:

• http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/api/loader
• http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/api/user/davglass (works for any username)
• http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/api/show/yql (works for any module name)
• http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/api/random
• http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/api/oncdn
• http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/api/featured
• http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/api/popular

Command Line
Last, but not least, my yui-git command line tool has support for the Gallery now.
You can query all the items in the Pending CDN Queue and check them out into a branch to test them before they are on the CDN.

That’s about it for now, hope you all enjoy the new Gallery & I hope to see lots of new modules in there soon.

Here is the message:

You can use a simple addListener like so:

YAHOO.util.Event.addListener([HTMLObject], 'contextmenu', CallBackFunction);

You can see a working example here:

http://blog.davglass.com/files/yahoo/index.html

FYI, I am also using the YAHOO.namespace in the example.

The link to that code still works

After reading a few of the old posts I thought I would do a little data collection & here’s what I came up with. In the last 3 years:

• 17,747 lines of YUI code w/comments
• 2,130 posts to ydn-javascript
• 432 public bugs fixed
• 222 posts to the new YUILibrary.com forum
• 211 public examples
• 15 talks
• 1 Video

Wow, it’s been an awesome 3 years.. Here’s to 3 more with YUI 3 !!

Currently it is quite usable and ready for people to start using and providing some feedback.

The full source is available on GitHub: http://github.com/davglass/yui-git/

This helper app is an addition to the already awesome git porcelain (meaning pretty, not brittle). When you place the git-yui file in your path, you will now have access to the git yui set of sub commands.

The commands that are currently supported are:

• git yui up
• git yui merge
• git yui sync
• git yui build
• git yui docs
• git yui lint
• git yui network
• git yui pullrequest
• git yui commits
• git yui create
• git yui log

The above commands are explained in full here: http://wiki.github.com/davglass/yui-git

Each of these commands are specific to YUI projects (yui2, yui3, yuidoc, builder). Some are only for yui2 and yui3: docs/build.

Hopefully these tools will help when contributing code.

Let me know what everyone thinks and please feel free to ask for feature requests

And it gets better

Tonight I have pushed the full batch to GitHub.

The full source to all of my examples are now available for cloning via git.

For more information on Git, see the guides section on GitHub.

I will be happy to accept updates/additions or fixes for any and all examples, so feel free to clone and update the repository.

I am in the process of moving to a new web host that supports git on the server, so it may take a little bit for me to catchup with any changes you make.

On another note, my Tools and DHTML Forms packages are also available via git.

Update: Just added my Effects package as well..

I have written an example what shows how to setup a local combo handler and configure YUI 2.6.0 to use it.

Currently the example doesn’t work for YUI 3.0.0pr1 but it will once YUI 3.0.0pr2 is released.

Let me know what you think of my rookie debut on video

The second app, is an offline doc browser for the YUI docs.

Hope you enjoy them

This example contains a patched version of the YUI Editor that makes the Editor render inside of AIR. The Editor contained in this app is not a fully functional version of the Editor Control (I am still working on that).

You can download and install the AIR app from here.

So you can see what I have done, I have included the source for the AIR app here.