Changelog

1.29.0 (2024-11-01)

• Introduces the withSidebar function. It can be used instead of generateSidebar and can be declared at the defineConfig level instead of the themeConfig.sidebar level. You can still use generateSidebar going forward, but we recommend using withSidebar for easier setup.

1.28.0 (2024-10-25)

• Not using numbers as separators in capitalizeEachWords (#185)
• BREAKING CHANGES: convertSameNameSubFileToGroupIndexPage option was renamed to useFolderLinkFromSameNameSubFile (#184)
• BREAKING CHANGES: Some deprecated options have been removed entirely: excludeFilesByFrontmatter, sortMenusOrderNumerically, sortByFileName, root, includeEmptyGroup, withIndex, useFolderLinkAsIndexPage, useIndexFileForFolderMenuInfo. See the documentation page and the CHANGELOG.md file for replacement options.

1.27.1 (2024-09-26)

• Fix sortMenusByFrontmatterOrder not been sorted in numerical order but in string order (@Cryolitia)

1.27.0 (2024-09-19)

• Add sortFolderTo option (#173)
• Do not create an empty items array
• Now capitalizeEachWords separates them into words based on all special characters (#175)

1.26.2 (2024-09-19)

• Fix sorting by name to be case-insensitive (#177)

1.26.1 (2024-09-18)

• Fix failed to install node.js 18 (#180)

1.26.0 (2024-09-16)

• BREAKING CHANGES: The excludeFiles and excludeFolders options have been deprecated; use the excludePattern option instead, which corresponds to both custom files and folders with a glob pattern. Both options will be removed in the next major version.
• Add excludePattern option (Specify the files/folders to exclude with the glob file pattern) (#145)

1.25.4 (2024-09-16)

• Fix performing formatting on attribute text in some Markdown syntax or HTML tags (#176)

1.25.3 (2024-09-03)

• If convertSameNameSubFileToGroupIndexPage and useFolderTitleFromIndexFile options are defined together, try with title from index file when title is not fetched (#170)

1.25.2 (2024-09-03)

This version may cause unintended behavior. Please ignore this version.

• Fix convertSameNameSubFileToGroupIndexPage to get the name normally if subfile doesn't exist when set
• Use the title of the index file if convertSameNameSubFileToGroupIndexPage and useFolderTitleFromIndexFile are defined together (#170)

1.25.1 (2024-09-03)

• BREAKING CHANGES: The Options type for TypeScript has been renamed to VitePressSidebarOptions.
• Fix to avoid converting non-first letter items to lowercase when using capitalizeEachWords
• Support for specifying sidebar option types for TypeScript
• Documentation page domain now changed to vitepress-sidebar.cdget.com!
• Korean documentation support

1.25.0 (2024-08-22)

• Add basePath option
• Fix incorrect directory path when using rewrite and convertSameNameSubFileToGroupIndexPage option. (#146)

1.24.2 (2024-08-13)

• Fix index link is blank in multiple sidebars (#167)

1.24.1 (2024-07-31)

• If a link exists in the directory, it will appear in the menu regardless of the option
• Fix do not include index link when index.md file is shown (#147)
• More precise argument checking

1.24.0 (2024-07-06)

• Add frontmatterTitleFieldName option. When used with useTitleFromFrontmatter, the text field of sidebar will extract from the value of frontmatterTitleFieldName instead of default title field if it exists. (@liudonghua123)

1.23.2 (2024-05-16)

• Revert 5ed188e. do not warn 'use option together'

1.23.1 (2024-05-15)

• Warning against using the removePrefixAfterOrdering option and the useTitleFrom option together
• Fix to return full filename if separator is not present in filename when using removePrefixAfterOrdering option

1.23.0 (2024-05-13)

• BREAKING CHANGES: The excludeFilesByFrontmatter option is deprecated and replaced by the excludeFilesByFrontmatterFieldName option. You can now specify any field name you want, including Frontmatter's exclude field name, and documents will be excluded from the menu when that field value is true. Existing users should work fine with the following settings excludeFilesByFrontmatterFieldName: 'exclude'. For more information, see the documentation.
• Allow empty values or empty object options to be passed in

1.22.0 (2024-03-28)

• prefixSeparator now accepts regular expressions
• Add sortMenusByFileDatePrefix option

1.21.0 (2024-03-15)

• Add removePrefixAfterOrdering and prefixSeparator option
• Documentation enhancements

1.20.0 (2024-03-12)

• BREAKING CHANGES: The sortMenusOrderNumerically option has been split into the sortMenusOrderNumericallyFromTitle and sortMenusOrderNumericallyFromLink options. Therefore, the old option is deprecated. Renamed to allow you to sort by file title or link. For more information, see README.md.
• Add sortMenusByFrontmatterDate option
• Add sortMenusOrderNumericallyFromLink option
• In useFolderLinkFromIndexFile, show the path to index.md together
• Fix folders with only an index file are not recognized as empty

1.19.0 (2024-02-26)

• Add excludeFilesByFrontmatter option (@aslafy-z)

1.18.6 (2024-01-03)

• Fix typescript issue

1.18.5 (2023-12-11)

• Add frontmatterOrderDefaultValue option (@aslafy-z)
• Fix recursive sort of items (@aslafy-z)
• Retrieve ordering for top level folder indexes (@aslafy-z)

1.18.0 (2023-10-02)

• Add capitalizeEachWords option
• The option to modify menu names is also reflected correctly when pulling names from MarkDown heading, frontmatter.

1.17.0 (2023-09-26)

• Add sortMenusOrderNumerically option

1.16.5 (2023-09-22)

• Fix nested links being created in multiple sidebars

1.16.0 (2023-09-21)

• BREAKING CHANGES: The useIndexFileForFolderMenuInfo option has been split into the useFolderTitleFromIndexFile and useFolderLinkFromIndexFile options. Therefore, the old option is deprecated. You can now specify whether the folder menu should get its name and link from the index.md file, respectively. For more information, see README.md.
• Make sure the link to the index page is clearly marked (e.g., folder/ instead of folder/index).

1.15.0 (2023-09-19)

• Fix correct base url for multiple sidebars
• The rootGroupText, rootGroupLink, and rootGroupCollapsed options are available again. However, these options are no longer required.

1.14.0 (2023-09-18)

• NOTE: The options rootGroupText, rootGroupLink, and rootGroupCollapsed are not available in this version. Please update to the latest version. These options have been restored!
• Use a better algorithm for stripping formatting from titles that contain Markdown syntax

1.13.0 (2023-09-13)

• BREAKING CHANGES: The generator normally strips some of the Markdown syntax when using useTitleFromFileHeading. If you do not want to remove Markdown syntax, set the keepMarkdownSyntaxFromTitle option to true.
• Add debugPrint option
• Add keepMarkdownSyntaxFromTitle option
• Improved test example files

1.12.0 (2023-09-12)

• Add sortMenusByFrontmatterOrder option

1.11.0 (2023-08-24)

• BREAKING CHANGES: useFolderLinkAsIndexPage option was renamed to useIndexFileForFolderMenuInfo
• BREAKING CHANGES: sortByFileName option was renamed to manualSortFileNameByPriority
• BREAKING CHANGES: The useFolderLinkAsIndexPage option now also gets the title information of the index.md file, so the name of the folder menu is set to the title of the index.md file
• The useFolderLinkAsIndexPage option, if the index file (index.md) does not exist, will display it without setting a link, replacing the name with the folder name
• Add sortMenusByName and sortMenusOrderByDescending options
• Added deprecated warning for changed option names

1.10.1 (2023-08-08)

• Fixed issue with rootGroupCollapsed option not being applied correctly

1.10.0 (2023-07-25)

• Add includeFolderIndexFile option
• Add useFolderLinkAsIndexPage option

1.9.5 (2023-07-25)

• Troubleshooting when links are not prefixed with /
• Allow null or undefined value for collapsed options

1.9.0 (2023-07-24)

• Add rootGroupCollapsed option. This option is separate from the collapsed option and allows you to set whether the RootGroup (the item displayed in the Table of Contents) is expanded or not. See README.md for more information.
• Correct behavior of collapseDepth

1.8.2 (2023-07-18)

• Remove unnecessary files
• Upgrade package dependencies
• Update README.md

1.8.1 (2023-06-15)

• Make sure to apply multi-sidebar settings for settings containing resolvePath

1.8.0 (2023-06-13)

• BREAKING CHANGES: The root option was renamed to documentRootPath.
• Support for multiple sidebars (Add scanStartPath and resolvePath option. Please read README.md file.)
• Improved multiple validation checks
• Improved Frontmatter inspections with special characters or newlines

1.7.5 (2023-05-28)

• Add folderLinkNotIncludesFileName option

1.7.0 (2023-05-28)

• BREAKING CHANGES: The withIndex option was renamed to includeRootIndexFile.
• BREAKING CHANGES: The includeEmptyGroup option was renamed to includeEmptyFolder.
• Add excludeFiles option
• Add excludeFolders option
• Add includeDotFiles option
• Parsing markdown h1 tag and frontmatter correctly

1.6.5 (2023-05-27)

• Fix convertSameNameSubFileToGroupIndexPage and rename option not working together

1.6.0 (2023-05-27)

• BREAKING CHANGES: The default value for hyphenToSpace is now false.
• Add convertSameNameSubFileToGroupIndexPage option: If this value is true, then if a subfile with the same name as the folder exists, a link will be created in the folder to navigate to that file, and the file will not be displayed in the child item.
• Fixed issue with hyphenToSpace and underscoreToSpace options not being applied to directories
• Add rootGroupLink option

1.5.1 (2023-05-26)

• Add .mocharc.json, remove tsconfig.prod.json file in .npmignore

1.5.0 (2023-05-26)

• Add useTitleFromFrontmatter option. See README.md.
• useTitleFromFileHeading: Use only valid title values in titles that contain links

1.4.0 (2023-05-26)

• Fix TypeScript lint error
• Upgrade package dependencies

1.3.1 (2023-04-20)

• Fix build issue

1.3.0 (2023-04-20)

• Upgrade package dependencies
• Cleanup codes and update documentation

1.2.0 (2023-02-07)

• BREAKING CHANGES: The collapsible option has been removed by VitePress 1.0.0-alpha.44 breaking changes. See: https://vitepress.vuejs.org/config/theme-configs
  • If the collapsed option is not specified(null or undefined), group collapse/expand is not used and all menus are displayed at once. If false, the menu is created with all groups expanded. If true, the menu is created with all groups collapsed.
• Upgrade package dependencies

1.1.5 (2023-01-12)

• Remove CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md for npm release

1.1.4 (2023-01-12)

• Upgrade package dependencies

1.1.3 (2022-12-08)

• Upgrade package dependencies
• Add includeEmptyGroup option
• Do not include empty group by default

1.1.2 (2022-11-23)

• Upgrade package dependencies
• Fix README.md and codes indent

1.1.1 (2022-11-02)

• Fix capitalizeFirst bug

1.1.0 (2022-11-02)

• Add capitalizeFirst option
• Fix null check for option

1.0.9 (2022-11-02)

• Add sortByFileName option

1.0.8 (2022-11-02)

• Add collapseDepth option
• Fix correct import fs module
• Upgrade package dependencies

1.0.7 (2022-10-31)

• Fix execution order and cleanup codes
• Add .editorconfig file and reformat codes (Development only)

1.0.6 (2022-10-31)

• Add useTitleFromFileHeading option
• Upgrade package dependencies

1.0.5 (2022-10-27)

• Change require NodeJS version to 14
• Add mocha test (Development only)

1.0.4 (2022-10-25)

• First production release

0.1.0 ~ 1.0.3 (2022-10-25 / Alpha)

• Alpha release (Not tested. Do not use production.)