Access content from createData without creating a new component

[atomicpages]

Hey there 👋 ,

is there a way to access content created via createData without using addRoute? Something like:

const { data } = usePluginData('something-rad');

but where someting-rad is created like so:

export default function plugin() {
  return {
    name: 'someting-rad',
    async loadContent() { ... },
    async contentLoaded({ content, actions }) {
      createData('woot.json', JSON.stringify(content));
    }
}

[slorber]

What do you mean by "access content", where do you want to access this data exactly and what does it contain?

createData/addRoute is mostly useful when you want a route component to receive the data as props

You can import/require any json file anywhere in your React code, so you can just write woot.json anywhere (in a plugin hook or a prebuild step) and import it with import Woot from "@site/woot.json" for example.

There is also a "global data" API that you can use to create some data that will be available everywhere by default
https://docusaurus.io/docs/next/docusaurus-core#useglobaldata

Keep in mind that you should avoid using such API if the data is useful in only a subset of pages, because it will increase the weight of all your pages of your site (including the homepage)

[atomicpages]

Ah, gotcha. Specifically this is for docusaurus-plugin-react-docgen-typescript. From loadContent I'm using createData to load type annotations into a json file within .docusaurus.

I did some digging with aliases and found @generated which does what I need. Didn't find any documentation on it, however.

[slorber]

We don't provide doc for @generated because it's not really worth documenting, it's just a shortcut for docusaurus to reduce length of paths and bundle size, but really we could just write @site/.docusaurus instead, (and @site is documented.

You can also require any json file with relative path or set your own webpack aliases. Requirig a file from an alias, an absolute path or relative path can work in webpack and Docusaurus support all that.