2 posts tagged with "plugin"

JsPlumb uses Docusaurus, a super handy static site generator, for various parts of our ecosystem, including our Documentation and also our recently released stand alone components product.

While developing the site for JsPlumb Components, we wanted to include a couple of pieces of information that would vary depending on whether we were running in development mode locally (ie docusaurus start) or building for production. We looked into the various options available, all based on the dotenv plugin for Webpack, but couldn't find what we were looking for: a solution that worked, with minimal manual intervention, in both development mode and when building for production.

So we ended up building our own plugin. This plugin reads values from a JSON file and makes them available to your site via the customFields map in the Docusaurus siteConfig.

JsPlumb uses Statcounter to keep track of what pages in the documentation people are looking at. Recently, at the tail end of the work to migrate to Typescript and release version 5.x of the Community and Toolkit editions, we started using Docusaurus, a super handy static site generator that not only runs on React but has React baked right into it, allowing us to easily embed working demonstrations throughout our docs, or to embed snippets from the api documentation directly into the main documentation via React components. It's a really handy tool, and if you're looking for a static site generator I recommend giving it a look.