Thursday 17 November 2022
Xlog is built to be small core that offers small set of features. And focus on offering a developer friendly public API to allow extending it with more features.
Extension points ¶
- Add any HTTP route with your handler function
- Add autocomplete list for the editor
- Add Goldmark extension for parsing or rendering
- Add a Preprocessor function to process page content before converting to HTML
- Listen to Page events such as Write or Delete.
- Define a helper function for templates
- Add a directory to be parsed as a template
- Add widgets in selected areas of the view page such as before or after rendered HTML
- Add a command to the list of commands triggered with
Ctrl+K which can execute arbitrary Javascript.
- Add a route to be exported in case of building static site
- Add arbitrary link to pages or any URL
- Add quick command to appear on top of the view page
Overview ¶
An extension is a
- Go module/package that imports xlog package
- Can be hosted anywhere
- Has an
init function
- Uses
Register* functions in the init function (checkout Go package documentation)
- Adds or improves a feature in xlog using one or more of the extension points.
- Imported by a the
main package of your knowledgebase along with all other extensions and Xlog itself. an example can be found in Xlog CLI
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