I started playing with building a neovim dendron plugin. Currently it does not more than lookup and opening a daily note. https://github.com/namjul/dotfiles/tree/master/dots/.config/nvim/lua/namjul/dendron

I'm hoping to build some kind of coc.nvim plugin for Dendron when the migration to a language server architecture is complete (maybe it already is and I'm not up to date)

right now I've got some stuff in vimscript and shell for looking up notes and opening a daily note

and also to be able to use

gf

to navigate through wikilinks

That sounds like something useful for me as well, just curious how it would work together with code-NeoVim

I anticipate that it wouldn't work all that well; I wasn't able to get code-neovim to behave the way I wanted it to. but who knows

@User FYI for those working with

nextjs-templates

, we now have support for writing playwright tests (https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/pull/2354). This is an E2E testing framework to replace cypress. Note that before running the tests, you'll need to run

npx playwright install --with-deps

. For instructions on how to run tests, see [[Test|dendron://dendron.docs/pkg.nextjs-template.qa.test]]

oh nice. I will give it a shot

Requests for a dark theme or custom themes come up frequently, and I have no idea how complicated it is to implement an alternate theme with the new framework Dendron uses. I did just remember Aral Balkan's approach to [making a dark theme](https://ar.al/2021/08/24/implementing-dark-mode-in-a-handful-of-lines-of-css-with-css-filters/). He cleverly uses an invert filter and hue rotation filter to achieve a dark theme, rather than specifying an entirely separate set of colors. If this can be done with the new framework, maybe it would save time for whoever works on theming?

I think there's already a dark theme for the preview, so I don't think a workaround is needed for dark mode. Thanks for bringing it up though, looks interesting!

Is there also a dark mode for publishing, or a way for the site to respond to user preferences? I think I have "prefers dark mode" set in Safari and Firefox, but the Dendron wiki always shows up with a white background.

I don't think so, no. That probably would be an easy goal to hit while we work on full theming support.

dark-mode

Are there any existing tests that check for schema matches?

if you look at recent pull request by @User you should find some

I can't find it, the only PR I see with schema tests is https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/pull/2274, but those are tests for applying templates. I'm testing if certain fnames match certain schemas or not.

I wrote a nice harness for testing schema matches, hopefully it's not duplicated effort 😅

hey @User - I know last we talked you were interested in getting started with open source development. let me know if that's still the case. @User posted some good first tasks in dendron that we purposely groomed for first time contributors -> https://discord.com/channels/717965437182410783/748936364283920495/936713179814318180

got it - misunderstood the question. we have some schema matching tests here but they are not extensive -> https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/blob/master/packages/engine-test-utils/src/presets/engine-server/query.ts#L80:L80

@User @User docs on how we test new engine methods This has been around for a while but never formally documented. posting here for visibility -> https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron-docs/commit/e53b72c021693f68e98b46646cb1bec4dd352eab

I've made a draft pull request for adding a rename command to the CLI. I think it's been four months now since I set out to work on this 😅 . Main thing is, I'm not sure if the docs on manual testing: are applicable to testing the CLI. Details in the draft.

Testing CLI

Since we cannot use

vscode

outside of

plugin-core

, what are the alternative methods that we use to prompt user for input?

CLI could prompt the user, although I'm not sure if there are any examples of that right now. Any code inside something like the engine or common-all shouldn't be interactive IMO, although you could accept a "promptUser" callback if you have to

following up on that - dendron currently has two clients: vscode and cli. they both have methods for prompting

Gotcha thanks @User . Eventually we want to support xvault schema support so that when an user creates a new note via "Go-to-note" command, they will be prompted to select which template to use. Right now the schema template apply logic is in common-all.

I would recommend splitting the logic into two parts then, one part that finds all applicable templates, and then another one that applies 1 template. Then the plugin/CLI code will call the first function, prompt the user if there are more than 1 templates, then call the second function.

gotcha, thanks for the input! i'll think on it some more and create an async/doc for this. We have a couple main entryways with regards to creating a note (plus applying template) that may be worth consolidating

How long ago where the RFC's switched from the

wiki.dendron.so

to the

docs.dendron.so

domain? Becouse I see some Discussion that still link to the wiki instead of the docs

quite a while back (its been maybe half a year now)