OK, so I realize I ended up on the SAP Community Forum, but I clicked the "Support" link from the SAP Fiori Tools VS Code plugin page, which was supposed to go to "https://ask.sapfioritools.com/", and this is where it led me.
I was hoping there is a place to submit suggestions, and hopefully someone working on Fiori tools gets this message.
So here goes:
Idea 1: Add more comprehensive sandbox functionality to Fiori Tools
Currently, you have the option to run an app in a mock sandbox that ships with the UI5 SDK.
It would be nice if you could configure and run a sandbox (or several sandboxes), as part of Fiori Tools, to which you could deploy multiple apps locally, to also test things like navigation, etc.
What we need is perhaps a set of tools to manage the local sandboxes and deploy apps to them.
Idea 2: Install NPM library dependencies globally, instead of in each project
Currently, when you create a Fiori or UI5 app, you install all the dependencies in the project. This is the normal way to do JS frontend development, but often JS developers are working on a small number of apps, or even just one.
Fiori developers regularly work with a large number of projects. When you install the same dependencies into each project every time, you end up with increased disk usage space and, more importantly, you run down your SSD write cycles unnecessarily with thousands of the same files each time.
It would be nice, for developing Fiori apps, if the tools by default install dependencies globally, so they are not duplicated in each project.
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If there is a better place/forum to raise these suggestions to the Fiori Tools developer, I would like to know, please!
Bluesky
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