Improve configuration, parameters, packaging

[swarnat]

Hy,

I just push my first TP Plugin with your SDK: https://github.com/swarnat/TouchPortal_OSC_General
Thanks for your work.

I have some notes, if we can improve this node-api a little bit, because I created functions, which makes it easier to work with the sdk in three points.
When you will agree, I would like to prepare a merge request from this new repository, after the topics are tested in production environments:

• There should be a base repository a developer can use to start from.

Configuration

• I added a config.js File, which contain pluginId and updateUrl. This allows me to use the plugin in several places and make index.js independent from pluginId.
• Basically this index.js is almost a generic one and can be a start point within an example. It simple calls a function from a file for a defined action. So the plugin developer for "simple" plugins can be focus on their topics. Maybe we got something similar for events and states. But about this I need to understand how they are working.

Parameter

• Because this is my first TouchPortal plugin, maybe it won't work or will got problems I currently not see. But this function should be a part of API. For me it makes it much easier to work with action data.

Packaging
Your Discord Plugin was my preset for this first plugin. But I do not have "7z" as available command. So I removed this external dependency and implemented the zip/tpp creation within nodejs code. I think this is much better to use: https://github.com/swarnat/TouchPortal_OSC_General/blob/main/bin/tp-packaging-win.js

Stefan

[spdermn02]

hey - sorry I'm so behind on commenting on this Issue.
I completely agree we need to make improvements to this code. Honestly, I'd written JS before, but Node.JS especially server side Node.JS was kind of a learning experience for me building this sort of thing.

what do you mean by There should be a base repository a developer can use to start from you mean like a "TouchPortal-Example-Plugin" repository? sort of a boilerplate default repo? I concur that could be very useful to use for a "get started" project.

I'll review the Parameters function and see what I can do about bringing it in, or if you want to make a PR feel free.

Just had another user create a PR for using ESLint to fix some of my styling mistakes.

Contributions are always welcome of course.