Add helpers for String and URI manipulation in templates

hans / obsidian-citation-plugin

Obsidian plugin which integrates your academic reference manager with the Obsidian editor. Search your references from within Obsidian and automatically create and reference literature notes for papers and books.

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Add helpers for String and URI manipulation in templates #165

Closed byteSamurai closed 1 year ago

byteSamurai commented 2 years ago

Because I needed it myself, I added helpers from a helper collection. I consider all helpers a bit overkill, but string and URI helpers should be sufficient for the most use cases.

Closes #59 Closes #89 too because of replace or dashcase filter

What happened apart from adding helpers:

I ran npm audit fix since it resolved a couple of issues - not all, but at least.
tsconfig.json was extended with "esModuleInterop": true, to use the default exported helper function of the npm package.
Within the settings page, links to the helper functions have been added.

@hans Your idea for this plugin is awesome. Would like to help more, if you'd like to.

byteSamurai commented 2 years ago

@hans WDYT?

hbhargava7 commented 1 year ago

Would love to see helpers added! Is there a list of which helpers are available currently?

hans commented 1 year ago

Thanks @byteSamurai for this wonderful contribution! I've just merged into develop and it will be included in the next release.

byteSamurai commented 1 year ago

A pleasure, @hans :)

However, I just tried to add author names as normalised tags, which brought me to what you did in the develop branch already. I need to admit dependencies of the handlebar helpers are everything but well maintained. I found a way to tweak the rollup config to rewrite the dynamic imports but... it's not beautiful.

Do you have a specific reason to stick with Handlebars? Maybe Nunjucks could be an alternative since it provides a good set of helpers (filters) already.

WDYT?