Obsidian Dev Utils

Obsidian Dev Utils is a collection of essential functions and CLI tools designed to streamline your Obsidian plugin development process. Whether you're building a plugin from scratch or enhancing an existing one, these utilities are here to simplify your workflow.

What is Obsidian?

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. It's a tool that lets you take notes and organize them, and it supports a rich plugin ecosystem that allows for extensive customization.

Who Should Use This Package?

This package is ideal for developers who are building or maintaining plugins for Obsidian. It provides a range of tools to make the development process easier, including automated builds, linting, spellchecking, and more.

Installation

To install the package, run the following command:

npm install obsidian-dev-utils

Usage

CLI Commands

The package offers several CLI commands to facilitate common development tasks:

Build Production Version

npx obsidian-dev-utils build

Compiles the production version of your plugin into the dist/build folder.

Clean build folder

npx obsidian-dev-utils build:clean

Cleans dist folder.

Build static assets

npx obsidian-dev-utils build:static

Copies static folder to dist folder.

Validate TypeScript build

npx obsidian-dev-utils build:validate

Validates if TypeScript code compiles.

Build Development Version

npx obsidian-dev-utils dev

Compiles the development version of your plugin into the dist/dev folder. The OBSIDIAN_CONFIG_DIR can be set either as an environment variable or specified in a .env file (e.g., path/to/my/vault/.obsidian). The command automatically copies the compiled plugin to the specified Obsidian configuration directory and triggers the Hot Reload plugin, if it is enabled. If the Hot Reload plugin is not installed, it will be installed automatically, and you will need to enable it manually.

Lint Code

npx obsidian-dev-utils lint

Lints your code, enforcing a code convention to minimize common errors.

Lint and Fix Code

npx obsidian-dev-utils lint:fix

Lints your code and automatically applies fixes where possible.

Spellcheck Code

npx obsidian-dev-utils spellcheck

Checks your code for spelling errors.

Version Management

npx obsidian-dev-utils version <versionUpdateType>

Runs build checks before updating the version and releases if all checks pass. The <versionUpdateType> can be major, minor, patch, beta, or a specific version like x.y.z[-suffix].

Simplified Usage

To simplify the usage of these commands, you can add them to your package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "build": "obsidian-dev-utils build",
    "build:clean": "obsidian-dev-utils build:clean",
    "build:static": "obsidian-dev-utils build:static",
    "dev": "obsidian-dev-utils dev",
    "lint": "obsidian-dev-utils lint",
    "lint:fix": "obsidian-dev-utils lint:fix",
    "spellcheck": "obsidian-dev-utils spellcheck",
    "version": "obsidian-dev-utils version"
  },
  "...": "..."
}

This setup allows you to run the commands using npm run, like npm run build.

Helper Functions

Obsidian Dev Utils also provides a range of general-purpose and Obsidian-specific helper functions.

The functions are grouped by files and folders and you have multiple ways to import them:

import { loadPluginSettings } from "obsidian-dev-utils/obsidian/Plugin/PluginSettings";
loadPluginSettings(() => ({ key: "defaultValue" }), { key: "newValue" });

import { PluginSettings } from "obsidian-dev-utils/obsidian/Plugin";
PluginSettings.loadPluginSettings(() => ({ key: "defaultValue" }), { key: "newValue" });

import { Plugin } from "obsidian-dev-utils/obsidian";
Plugin.PluginSettings.loadPluginSettings(() => ({ key: "defaultValue" }), { key: "newValue" });

import { obsidian } from "obsidian-dev-utils";
obsidian.Plugin.PluginSettings.loadPluginSettings(() => ({ key: "defaultValue" }), { key: "newValue" });

import * as obsidianDevUtils from "obsidian-dev-utils";
obsidianDevUtils.obsidian.Plugin.PluginSettings.loadPluginSettings(() => ({ key: "defaultValue" }), { key: "newValue" });

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License

© Michael Naumov