xr-lab-catalogue

The Lone Star XR Lab's full app catalogue — shows every XR app/experience worth tracking across the wider ecosystem, whether or not the lab owns or has installed it (potential purchases, apps under evaluation, faculty requests). Live at lone-star-xr-lab.github.io/xr-lab-catalogue.

This is a thin site: almost all of the actual logic, styling, and app data lives in xr-app-data, loaded at runtime from a jsdelivr CDN mirror of that repo. See that repo's README for the data schema, the filtering/rendering code, and — most importantly — how deploys work.

Contents

• index.html — the whole site. Contains the page shell, this site's specific copy/branding, and an Alpine.js x-data="app({ site: 'catalogue' })" root that pulls in the shared ui/app.js/ui/styles.css from xr-app-data. There is no other HTML/JS/CSS in this repo — don't fork a local copy of the shared UI code here. Unlike xr-lab-library, even the header logo image is pulled from the xr-app-data CDN rather than stored locally.

How apps get on this site

An app shows up here if its visibility.catalogue field is true in xr-app-data's data/apps.json — which is meant to be nearly everything, regardless of ownership/approval status. Apps currently approved and/or installed in the lab also appear on the companion xr-lab-library site, which is the narrower, "what's actually in active use" view.

Deploying a change

index.html loads ui/app.js, ui/styles.css, and the header logo from xr-app-data via a pinned commit SHA (not @main — that was tried and abandoned because jsdelivr's caching for a mutable branch ref proved unreliable and wouldn't reliably refresh even after a manual purge). This means:

• Editing this site's own copy/branding/layout in index.html is a normal push, no special steps.
• Picking up any change made in xr-app-data (new data, a UI fix, a new app) requires updating the SHA in the <script src="...">/<link href="...">/logo <img src="..."> references at the top of index.html to the latest commit from that repo, then pushing here. Follow the exact sequence in xr-app-data's README under "Deploying a change" — this site is the last step in that sequence, not something to update on its own.