Add a "pre-ready" `init` hook for plugins to execute functions before the build begins

[Swader]

Feature request

Add a "pre-ready" init hook for plugins which exectues before everything else in the build step.

What problem does this feature solve?

This one. In short, it lets the user execute as many tasks as necessary before the body of the build begins, thereby no longer needing to run build twice because right now the build task speeds past the MD generation process.

What does the proposed API look like?

module.exports = {
    init () {
        console.log("Initializing MD pre-processing");

//...

How should this be implemented in your opinion?

Same way as ready.

Are you willing to work on this yourself?

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[Swader]

@ulivz @yyx990803 I have taken the liberty of bountying this feature request for 100 USD. If you could spread the word a little that'd be great.

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module.exports = {
init () {
console.log("Initializing MD pre-processing");

//...

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module.exports = {
init () {
console.log("Initializing MD pre-processing");

//...

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Dont have much experience with Vue but have thorough knowledge of JS. Would be fun to work on this.

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[kefranabg]

@Swader what you want to do is modify generated markdown files right?

Could you provide a real example of what you're trying to achieve?

[Swader]

Look into https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-docs-suite - what I do is define a list of repos for which to generate docs. The docs are generated by:

• grabbing the readme, cleaning it, and preparing an MD for an Overview doc
• grabbing the lib's source, running the language's API reference extractor (in this case Nim) and generating MD from those.
• grabbing cookbook recipes and tutorials (in progress) and generating cleaned MD files from those
• building all this to produce: https://nimbus-libs.status.im

The killer feature here is CI - this will let me easily plug this into CI so that changes to the master branch on any of the configured repos will trigger a rebuild, thus keeping the docs automatically up to date as the lib developers make changes, without needing further manual intervention from me. We can then focus on making the code and its native docs perfect, and it will be reflected in the docs suite.

Hope that clears it up

[Swader]

Ignored in favor of extracting plugin functionality into prepare.js and then making a command like:

"make": "node prepare && vuepress build"

Bounty can be considered completed, PR can be closed.

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