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An opinionated but still lightweight Yeoman generator to help create Starlight plugins.

opinionated: Git and pnpm are required to generate a monorepo containing a Starlight plugin package and a Starlight documentation project acting at the same time as a playground to test your plugin. The plugin is expected to be written in TypeScript, hosted on GitHub, and licensed under the MIT license.
lightweight: Formatting, linting, testing, bundling, publishing, deploying the documentation, which are all optional for a Starlight plugin, are not enforced by the generator. You are free to add them to your project as you see fit using the tools and services you prefer.

Usage

To use the generator, run the following command in your terminal from the directory where you want to work on your plugin:

npx -p yo -p @hideoo/generator-starlight-plugin -- yo @hideoo/starlight-plugin

To start creating your Starlight plugin, edit the packages/plugin-name/index.ts file which will be the entry point of your plugin.

To test your plugin, run the following command from the docs/ directory:

pnpm dev

To learn more about plugin development, check the Starlight documentation.

Project Structure

The generated project uses a monorepo structure with different pnpm workspaces:

docs/: A Starlight documentation project to document your plugin that also acts as a playground to test it.
packages/plugin-name/: A package containing your Starlight plugin.

Resources

The generated project contains the bare minimum to get started with a Starlight plugin. Here are some additional resources to help you develop and release your plugin: