I’d like to suggest a possible subcategory for Design Patterns unique to Sponge. This could be useful for assisting new plugin developers in tackling common problems that are too trivial to be solved with the SpongeAPI. The subcategory would likely be included under Plugins.
Possible topic guidelines:
Address a common goal/issue several plugin developers tackle
Provide a code snippet on how to fix it
Additionally: Note Pros & Cons to using this design pattern
If a subcategory for this is too much then a pinned topic under Resources with a list linking to code snippets - gists or otherwise - would also be good
That could work too but is there a specific place where these can be shown off on the forums? I guess the Resources category would be the closest category to this but Design Patterns/Example plugins weren’t listed in the About Resources Topic.
Tutorials I would see as the closest thing to a design pattern or example plugin, whereas utilities and libraries would qualify as distributed JARs. At least that’s how I interpreted it, correct me if I’m wrong.
My post was meant as an addition to yours, not as a replacement.
Listing short codensnippets in a thread/separate subforums is in general a very good idea
Regarding the example plugins, we currently have this:
