sourcebit-sample-plugin

A sample plugin for Sourcebit

👩‍🏫 Introduction

This is a simple Sourcebit plugin for development and educational purposes. It retrieves entries from a remote API located at https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/. If the watch option is supplied, one of the entries will be randomly picked every 3 seconds and a string containing "(updated)" will be appended to the body field.

For details on how Sourcebit plugins work and the requirements for creating a new plugin, please check out contribution guidelines.

For a step-by-step walkthrough on building a Sourcebit plugin, check out our tutorial at: https://www.stackbit.com/blog/sourcebit-plugin/

🏗 Installation

To install the plugin and add it to your project, run:

npm install sourcebit-sample-plugin --save

💡 You don't need to run this command if you start Sourcebit using the interactive setup process, as the CLI will install the plugin for you and add it as a dependency to your project.

⚙️ Configuration

The plugin accepts the following configuration parameters. They can be supplied in any of the following ways:

• In the options object of the plugin configuration block inside sourcebit.js, with the value of the Property column as a key;
• As an environment variable named after the Env variable column, when running the sourcebit fetch command;
• As part of a .env file, with the value of the Env variable column separated by the value with an equals sign (e.g. MY_VARIABLE=my-value);
• As a CLI parameter, when running the sourcebit fetch command, using the value of the Parameter column as the name of the parameter (e.g. sourcebit fetch --my-parameter).

Property	Type	Visibility	Default value	Env variable	Parameter	Description
mySecret	String	Private		MY_SECRET		A secret value. Not actually used by the plugin, purely for demonstration purposes.
watch	Boolean	Public	false		watch	Whether to update entries on a regular interval.
titleCase	Boolean	Public	false			Whether to convert the value of the title field to title-case

👀 Example configuration

sourcebit.js

module.exports = {
    plugins: [
        {
            module: require('sourcebit-sample-plugin'),
            options: {
                titleCase: true
            }
        }
    ]
};

🧞‍♂️ Interactive setup process

This plugin offers an interactive setup process via the npx create-sourcebit command.

📥 Input

N/A

📤 Output

This plugin adds normalized entries to the objects data bucket and normalized model objects to the models data bucket.

👷🏻‍♀️ Development

The example directory contains a basic installation of Sourcebit with this sample plugin installed and configured. It's a good way to develop a plugin locally.

To run it, run:

cd example
npm install

# Run Sourcebit in the command-line
npm run sourcebit-cli

# Run Sourcebit in a Node.js application
npm run sourcebit-node