Explore easier sharing mechanisms

[parlough]

An issue to discuss potential replacements to DartPad's current gist loading mechanism.

It would be nice if whatever used here could also be used by "Open in DartPad" in lightweight DartPads.

A few ways:

Upload snippet to some database or blob storage

• Easy and flexible, but has potential concerns due to storing user-generated content (although anonymous)
• Can automatically delete after not being accessed for X-days (entries can be exempted)
• Easier to share than using a query parameter
• The Go Playground uses datastore
• Should be limited in size :)

Query parameter:

• Has size limitations?
• Hard to actually share. Potentially too large for sharing in some chat areas and social media platforms
• No need to store anything on server

Extra:

• Besides using query parameters, the Rust playground seems to also support uploading to a shared GitHub gist account?

[parlough]

As a note, the Flutter API docs could then migrate to use the shared mechanism rather than the custom solution we have for them now.

[OnkelTem]

Hi folks.

I'm new to DartPad and I was really surprised that I basically cannot share my code.
Sure, I read the Sharing Guide but it doesn't seem to be usable - making gists, copy long numbers, manually constructing URLs, omg...

Can I share my code anyway like via a query parameter?

[OnkelTem]

• Hard to actually share. Potentially too large for sharing in some chat areas and social media platforms

Of course. Yet, we can always use some trusted URL shorteners: let the size limit be their database problems :)

[Levi-Lesches]

@parlough Would you happen to know why the automatic Gist creation feature is no longer present? I thought it was pretty neat, being able to sign in with GitHub and pressing a button to save and share your code.

[neiljaywarner]

@parlough any new thoughts?