VuePress Next Alpha

[ulivz]

Status: ≈ 96% ready and feedbacks are welcome.

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Major Features

Plugin API

• Documentation (WIP)
• Multiple official plugins
  • @vuepress/plugin-active-header-links
  • @vuepress/plugin-back-to-top (Thanks to @ycmjason )
  • @vuepress/plugin-blog (For blog theme developers.)
  • @vuepress/plugin-pagination (For blog theme developers.)
  • @vuepress/plugin-google-analytics
  • @vuepress/plugin-last-updated
  • @vuepress/plugin-i18n-ui
  • @vuepress/plugin-medium-zoom
  • @vuepress/plugin-pwa
  • @vuepress/plugin-register-components

Refined Theme API

• Documentation (WIP)

Permalink

Markdown file slots

• Define slots:

- Evan You

<template slot="projects">

    - Vue.js
    - VueX

</template>

• Using slots:

<Content/> <!-- get default slot -->
<Content slot="projects"> <!-- get named slot -->

Free to add new pages

You can add new pages with content (i.e. pointing to markdown files) or no content (i.e. common routes).

Custom temp path

vuepress dev docs --temp .temp

Clean layout

In the past, custom layouts were actually implemented by default theme, now it's moved to core.

Configurable dev and ssr template

Major internal Changes

1. Leverage monorepo;
2. Decouple @vuepress/core and @vuepress/theme-default
3. Rewrite Prepare with Plugin API

TODO

1. Improve ducumentation;
2. Prepare an online slide or article to introduce VuePress Next;
3. Official blog theme;
4. Clean URL (Allow devServer to serve cleanURL #603);
5. Hoist search as a plugin;
6. Introduce markdown-it-chain to make markdown configurable; (Low priority);
7. Rest feature requests.

Release plan

alpha (Sep. - Oct.) => beta (Nov.) => rc (Dec. - Jan.)

Close

Close: #160 (Dynamic routes do not get generated with build)
Close: #281 (Register global components in themes )
Close: #372 (back to top button)
Close: #434 (light-box)
Close: #452 (Data files and dynamic page generation support)
Close: #465 (Page Level Encryption)
Close: #549 (Ability to read/compile .MD file from installed npm module)
Close: #573 (light-box)
Close: #576 (Choosing 404.vue)
Close: #594 (Last Update should be support to change date format pattern)
Close: #600 (custom themeLayoutPath)
Close: #662 (Open config to custom themes)
Close: #723 (Change temp directory)
Close: #729 (Define custom component directory and import custom components)
Close: #733 (Config the dev and build html template. )
Close: #758 (Add webpackServer config)
Close: #771 ([cli] Expose clean build)
Close: #786 (vuepress build command will effect other vuepress dev command in running. )
Close: #790 (How can I add pure js code to index.html)

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cc @yyx990803

[ekoeryanto]

I am ready with my 🎆 fireworks

[oscarteg]

All the plugin links are giving a 404.