Docusaurus 2 is a pretty big deal (JS Party #247)
Docusaurus maintainer Sébastien Lorber joins Jerod & Amal for a deep-dive on everybody's favorite documentation generator. It's back with a big 2.0 release, boasts some big users, and has a big set of new features such as document versioning, a plugin architecture, and more.
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- 0:00 Opener
- 0:48 Sponsor: Raygun
- 2:47 Intro
- 3:36 Welcoming Sebastien
- 5:57 Getting a freelance gig with Meta
- 7:25 Benefits of working in the open
- 10:23 Sebatien's role on the project
- 11:58 Meta freelancer details
- 14:07 The history of Docusaurus
- 18:08 Jekyll & Hugo release dates
- 19:34 Why a big rewrite?
- 22:49 Sponsor: Retool
- 23:47 SPA vs MPA
- 26:35 What's so funny, Amal?
- 27:45 Conservative pre-caching
- 29:05 Back to V2 features
- 39:26 Big sites using Docusaurus
- 40:15 Documentation versioning!
- 44:32 Sponsor: Sourcegraph
- 49:09 The plugin architecture
- 55:54 Distributing plugins
- 58:30 The community
- 1:00:59 Praise for Docusaurus
- 1:04:45 Getting started
- 1:05:07 Sweating the details
- 1:06:09 This Week in React
- 1:06:53 A multi-lingual newsletter!
- 1:08:28 Closing time 👋
- 1:09:02 Outro
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