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vite-plugin-vitepress-auto-sidebar

The vite plugin that automatically generates sidebar data by scanning directories, based on vitepress

✨ Feature

🚀 Automatically create the sidebar data and injected into config.ThemeConfig.sidebar

🤖 Listen globally for *.md files to automatically update sidebar data when they are added or deleted

🕯️ Usage

install vite-plugin-vitepress-auto-sidebar

# recommend using pnpm packageManager
pnpm i vite-plugin-vitepress-auto-sidebar
# or yarn
yarn add vite-plugin-vitepress-auto-sidebar
# or npm
npm install vite-plugin-vitepress-auto-sidebar

add plugin in .vitepress/config.ts

import AutoSidebar from 'vite-plugin-vitepress-auto-sidebar';

export default defineConfig({
  vite: {
    plugins: [
      // add plugin
      AutoSidebar({
        // You can also set options to adjust sidebar data
        // see option document below
      })
    ]
  },
})

Warning, you must clear the sidebar objects in the config.ts or it may not work properly

pnpm run dev

 [auto-sidebar] injected sidebar data successfully

If you see the above message, it means the plugin is working properly, otherwise there may be a problem

🛠️ Options

Parameters

name	description	type	default
ignoreList	ignore specified folder	`string[]`	`true`
path	create scan path for the sidebar	`string`	`/docs`
scanRootMdFiles	scan the md file in path	`boolean`	`true`
ignoreIndexItem	ignore the page sidebar with only index.md	`boolean`	`false`
collapsed	By adding collapsed option to the sidebar group, it shows a toggle button to hide/show each section,For specific usage, please refer to VitePress	`boolean`	`false`
deletePrefix	deletes the md file prefix	`string`
titleFromFile	read title from md file	`boolean`	`false`
titleFromFileByYaml	read title from yaml config	`boolean`	`false`

Hooks

You can change the injected sidebar object using the hooks parameter

name	description	type
sideBarResolved	receive complete sidebar objects for custom modifications	`(data: DefaultTheme.SidebarMulti) => DefaultTheme.SidebarMulti`
sideBarItemsResolved	receive complete sidebar subItem objects for custom modifications	`(data: DefaultTheme.SidebarItem[]) => DefaultTheme.SidebarItem[]`
beforeCreateSideBarItems	obtain a list of file names scanned before generating sidebar subitems. If you want to sort sidebar data, it is recommended to use it	`(data: string[]) => string[]`