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Are software recommendation questions on-topic?
I want to build an HTML/CSS/JS interface in which cards are spread like physical cards on a table. You can move them around, and clicking on them will open a modal with more details. It should be usable on mobile. I guess there are examples around the internet with sample code, but I can't find one. I would like to know:
- Existing projects using this idea, or
- Helpful libraries to build one, or
- Preferably, existing code that I only need to replace the placeholder data with my own
Reading What type of questions can I ask here? I don't know if this is on-topic or not. Any ideas?
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Two types of software recommendation
When someone says "software recommendation" they may mean one of two quite different things, for which the answer to your question will be different.
Recommendations for users
If someone asks for software that they can use to do something unrelated to software development, such as editing an image using a graphical user interface, this is outside the scope of Software Development Codidact.
If anyone would like to be able to ask such questions, they can propose a new community on Codidact Proposals.
Recommendations for developers
If someone asks for software that they can use in the course of software development, such as a recommendation of a library or some existing software to learn from or adapt, I would expect this to be outside the scope of the Q&A category. Although answering a question about how to fix a specific problem may lead to answers that happen to include a recommended library or existing software to adapt, asking directly for a recommendation does not seem a good fit for the Q&A category.
However, new categories can easily be added. For example, we already have the Code Reviews category where requests for feedback on code can be posted, even though these would be off topic in the Q&A category. If anyone would like to see a new category for software development related recommendation questions, they can suggest this in a Meta question so the community can discuss whether they would like to see this and what its scope would be.
For example, there would need to be a decision on whether such a category would only allow recommendation requests for libraries and example code to learn from, or also allow asking about recommended IDEs and other development tools.
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