Request: Project Library previews and cross-links in docs

I’m still getting used to the new Studio editor and ECS system, and I’m finding a lot of useful real-world examples of code and project architecture inside of various Project Library projects that are not clear from the docs (for me, at least). But I’m finding I often have to clone these projects just to see if they contain anything relevant for what I’m trying to figure out, since there is now important information that is only shown inside the editor view. Things like how entities are arranged/nested, how components are used, and entity-specific settings for materials and components. The cloning process takes a while, and I end up with a bunch of “dead” projects in my workspace that I have no intention of publishing.

It’d be really helpful to be able to quickly preview a project without having to clone it, like maybe through a read-only Studio embedded in the page or a popup, or a simplified textual representation of the entity hierarchy and settings similar to (or included inside of) the file browser that already exists.

I’m also finding that the Studio docs contain a lot of low-level, auto-generated syntax examples of specific API functions, but not a lot of examples of best practices and real-world use cases. The projects in the Projects Library have lots of great examples, but I haven’t seen many references to them in the docs. Seems like there is some low-hanging fruit here where the docs can be improved just by linking them to all the great stuff that has already been built in the Project Library!

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Excellent ideas! :smiley: I definitely want to include these.

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