Have a pre-render script that isn't running

[dweng0]

The problem

Pre-render lua script is not running.
Hey guys, here's my problem, i have a very basic lua script that at the moment is just a "hello world" that is supposed to create an output.txt file and inject "hello world". However, when i run quarto render template.qmd it doesn't run
however if i run quarto run _extensions/qreact/find-react-components.lua it works as expected. Is there some condition where pre render doesn't always execute its scripts?
EDIT: I forgot to add, it is defined in the extension yml under pre-render here

What I am trying to achieve

I'm looking at the feasibility of creating an extention that injects React components using a custom extension. You can find it here

It essentially follows the process defined in the documentation to create a custom format

The idea being that

• A pre-render script is used to look for a React shortcode, in the md/qmd, replacing the shortcode to be just a div with a unique id for injecting the react component later. Then creating a list of components to "render" with their corresponding div ids, and saving the list to a tmp file,

• A include-header script that inject the correct React dependencies (react.min ect)

• and another include-header that reads through the tmp file we created earlier, finding the user's components and essentially dumping them in a header script. then for each one, injecting div id to the ReactDOM.render call. EG:

ReactDOM.render(
  React.createElement(MyComponent),
  document.getElementById('correspondingcomponentid')
);

[dweng0]

Sorry guys, I opened this in the wrong repo, will close and open in the correct repo

[jjallaire]

You shouldn't need pre-render scripts or temp files for any of this (note that pre-render scripts only work in projects anyway). You should use the HTML dependencies API to inject the dependencies and scripts you need: https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/lua-api.html#dependencies