Apps/Ecosystem

Wait what, Ecosystem?

Imagine you're a web developer and you want to learn about this Web Apps thing. We should explain to you what this is, what you can do with it and how to build a web app, providing you with guidance and resources along the way.

Goals

• Make the app developer experience amazing
• Give app developers a very clear path to where they want to go

TODO

Stuff to do before Wednesday storyboarding:

• Comparative analysis, design prep - jgrlicky
  • Raw Screenshots
• Set up zamboni and get a working /developers instance - arron, sean, piotr
• Content audit, what goes into "what's a web app" and "code it" on day 1 - dbuc
  • same, but for "test it", "publish it", "next steps" - Fred
• Set up time on Wednesday (3pm?) for us to storyboard/strawman - dbuc

Relevant Sites

Internal:

• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/apps/
• https://marketplace.mozilla.org/en-US/login?to=/en-US/developers/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Apps
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps

External:

• https://stripe.com/ and https://stripe.com/docs
• https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#referencelibrary/GettingStarted/RoadMapiOS/

Version 1: Landing Page

Informational landing page(s) outlining the dev process for web apps.

Suggested outline:

What's a Web App?

• Examples
• Compare to other platforms
  • iOS, Android
  • Website
  • Add-on
• Technologies used

Code it!

• The parts of an open web app
• Bootstrap
• HTML5 / CSS3 / JS docs
• Localization

Test it!

• Mobile
• Desktop
• Offline / online

Publish it!

• Deployment
  • (own server, Heroku, Google Appspot)
• Marketplace / AMO
• Monetization

Next Steps

• Updates
• User Engagement

Version 2: Mozilla Builder

The Mozilla Builder is a ecosystem-unifying developer tool that supports app creation from "idea to paid". The Builder will aid in idea formulation, provide a bootstrap for new projects, integrate documentation based on context, provide an authoring environment, help in app testing, and enable publishing to the Mozilla Marketplace, as well as a host of other value added services that support the entirety of the app life-cycle.