Docusaurus 2 is a pretty big deal

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

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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Featuring:

• Sébastien Lorber – Twitter, GitHub
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• Docusaurus
• The showcase
• docusaurus.new
• This Week in React

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. Opener (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Raygun (00:00:48)

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3. Intro (00:02:47)

4. Welcoming Sebastien (00:03:36)

5. Getting a freelance gig with Meta (00:05:57)

6. Benefits of working in the open (00:07:25)

7. Sebatien's role on the project (00:10:23)

8. Meta freelancer details (00:11:58)

9. The history of Docusaurus (00:14:07)

10. Jekyll & Hugo release dates (00:18:08)

11. Why a big rewrite? (00:19:34)

12. Sponsor: Retool (00:22:49)

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13. SPA vs MPA (00:23:47)

14. What's so funny, Amal? (00:26:35)

15. Conservative pre-caching (00:27:45)

16. Back to V2 features (00:29:05)

17. Big sites using Docusaurus (00:39:26)

18. Documentation versioning! (00:40:15)

19. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:44:32)

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20. The plugin architecture (00:49:09)

21. Distributing plugins (00:55:54)

22. The community (00:58:30)

23. Praise for Docusaurus (01:00:59)

24. Getting started (01:04:45)

25. Sweating the details (01:05:07)

26. This Week in React (01:06:09)

27. A multi-lingual newsletter! (01:06:53)

28. Closing time 👋 (01:08:28)

29. Outro (01:09:02)