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Review posted by zachgarcia10 on at

Bleeding Edge is Right

zachgarcia10
This is by far the best tool on the market place. I have cut my work flow time in half by spending a little time understanding how great chisel can be. You can create blocks instantly with a click of a button which will allow the user easy data entry and with minimal php / html / css / C5 knowledge can output an amazing feature. You can also create dashboard sections (catalog/settings pages) for large amounts of data to than be pulled in through a single page with minimal mvc knowledge. I honestly couldn't even imagine building a C5 site without this tool and if you want to maximize your potential and minimize your time this is the tool for you. Don't waste your time rebuilding blocks and dashboard sections, lets chisel handle that for you. Spend your time in the code, create amazing features make C5 great with this tool. If your looking for a tool thats going to do ALL the work for you than its not for you. If you love to code and don't like recreating boiler plate structure/files, than this is the tool for you.
Review posted by zanedev on at

Good premise lots of potential

zanedev
Great potential if I can get it to work :) It's marked "bleeding edge" so here is some feedback, hope it helps because I would really like to use the addon but in it's current state I'm going to have to pass for now.

Some basic but critical architecture decisions in the code base need to be improved. File paths need some work they are all written in relative terms instead of using the C5 core directory helpers and in at least 5-10 different ways in js and php so I can't use it in a symlinked environment easily. Unfortunately the entire plugin relies on dynamically loading file paths so it completely breaks down for me at this level. Some of this could be alleviated also by using php classes and namespaces to include files rather than directly trying to load them off the filesystem based on brittle paths.

The addon needs to keep internal stuff in it's package directory like storing it's schemas in the package directory rather than making new directories in /Application.

Pls fix those issues and I'll reconsider my review. Thanks!

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