plugin-template

Template for Citation.js plugins

Usage

Initiating the template

mkdir your-plugin
cd your-plugin

npm init @citation-js/plugin
# or 'npx @citation-js/create-plugin'

This triggers a few questions:

• package name: The name of the package as you want to publish it on npm
• version: The current version. I recommend 0.0.0, then you can run npm version major, minor or patch when the first version is ready
• description: Something like "Citation.js plugin for ..."
• entry point: You can leave this empty, unless you have some specific ideas. It gets filled in later with a more specific default
• test command: You can leave this empty as well
• git repository: If you are putting this in a Git repository, you can put the URL here
• keywords: Comma-separated list of keywords, if you want to you can include citation-js and the format the plugin is for
• author: Your name, optionally followed by <email> and/or (website)
• license: Most current plugins are MIT-licensed, but that's your decision
• Is this OK?: Yes, unless you made a mistake of course
• What should the plugin scope name (csl, doi, bibtex) be? Up to you, but try to keep it simple, like pubmed for PubMed and PubMed Central Identifiers

This generates a file structure:

.
├── .gitignore
├── .travis.yml         # Configuration for my CI of choice, Travis CI
├── babel.config.js     # Configuration for the Babel build tool
├── package.json        # package manifest for npm/Node
├── README.md
├── src
│   ├── config.js       # Defines default config options
│   ├── index.js        # Registers the plugin
│   ├── input.js        # Defines input formats
│   └── output.js       # Defines output formats
└── test
    └── suite.js        # test suite

Now, run:

npm install

This installs the necessary development tools.

Editing source files

• If your plugin only defines input or output formats, you can remove the other file and references to that file from index.js.
• If you do not need configuration, you can remove the file and remove references to the file from index.js and input.js.
• input.js contains an example format with an identifier that gets parsed into an API URL, the result of which
• More documentation and links can be found in comments in the source files.
• The code style is StandardJS. Linting can be done with npm run lint and simple style issues can be corrected with npm run lint -- --fix

Testing

• An easy way to test while developing is with the following code:

const core = require('@citation-js/core') // Get Citation.js
require('@babel/register')                // Make sure you can use modern features
require('./src/')                         // Load the plugin you are working on

// If you are using synchronous functions
const data = core.Cite(input, options)
// ...

// If you are using asynchronous functions
core.Cite.async(input, options)
    .then(data => /* ... */)
    .catch(console.error)

• To write proper tests, see test/suite.js, which includes comments