File Viewer for Bitbucket Cloud is the winner of the Codegeist 2015 Atlassian hackathon, in the category Best Bitbucket add-on.
This guest post is written by Alexander Kuznetsov, one of the developers of File Viewer for Bitbucket Cloud and co-founder of StiltSoft, an Atlassian Verified vendor and Atlassian Expert. Alexander has seven years’ experience as a software developer, five of which have been developing add-ons for Atlassian platforms. He was also the runner-up of Codegeist 2012 for the Awesome Graphs for Bitbucket Server (Stash) add-on.
With millions of developers on Bitbucket Cloud there is a huge demand for add-ons providing additional functionality. Earlier this year our team introduced Awesome Graphs for Bitbucket Cloud. Then later in October, we decided to participate in Atlassian Codegeist 2015 with the idea that Bitbucket Cloud users would appreciate the capability to view files of various formats directly on Bitbucket pages. That’s how we built File Viewer for Bitbucket Cloud.
File Viewer for Bitbucket Cloud
This add-on allows you to view 3D and 2D models, maps, tables, and PDF files that are a part of your repositories right in Bitbucket without downloading them.
It’s a pack of viewers that includes:
File Viewer adds a new button on the panel of the core Bitbucket viewer, the one you see when you click a file in the Source tab. That button is used to switch from the default view to seeing a file in the add-on viewer.
View PDF documents
While viewing files with the *.pdf extension, you can see how many pages there are in a PDF document. Pages are displayed one at a time and you can navigate between them.
View 3D and 2D models in STL and Autodesk Viewers
There are two viewers for 3D models – STL Viewer and Autodesk Viewer. The latter can be used to view 2D models as well. STL Viewer works with *.stl extension files and renders them as 3D models that you can spin and zoom. This viewer is opened when you select the ‘View as 3D model’ option.
Autodesk Viewer supports over 30 file formats. Using this viewer you can visualize and interact with 2D and 3D design data. To open it, select the ‘View in Autodesk Viewer’ option.
View CSV and TSV documents
Table Viewer presents CSV and TSV files as tables with header and sorting capability.
View Maps
Map Viewer displays files with the *.geojson extension as maps that you can zoom and interact with (i.e. click it).
Try it
You can try File Viewer for Bitbucket Cloud by installing the add-on from the Find new add-ons section in your Bitbucket Cloud personal account settings. File Viewer doesn’t require any configuration. Once installed, you can start using it right away. Navigate to the Source section on the left-hand sidebar in your repository, locate a file you would like to view and select the viewer option in the ‘Default File Viewer’ menu.
We’d love to hear from you. If you have feature requests or feedback you would like to share, please contact us or post your ideas at the File Viewer forum.