@contentful/app-sdk
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The App SDK (formerly known as UI Extensions SDK) is a JavaScript library that allows developers to create custom Contentful Apps for the Contentful Web App. Every Contentful App has to include the library in its source.
create-contentful-app - CLI tool for developing apps without the hassle of managing build configurationscontentful-ui-extensions-sdk at npmTechnical questions, feedback or feature request can be provided directly through the Github issues for this repository. However, if you are a paying customer or at any point business sensitive information needs to be discussed, then the conversation should be handled via our support system.
A new package version is automatically published to npm using semantic-release.
To manually publish the package, run npm run publish-all.
This repository is published as two packages with identical data. We recommend using @contentful/app-sdk.
@contentful/app-sdkcontentful-ui-extensions-sdkThis package has two main development streams: latest and canary.
The default and stable releases are always published under the latest tag (as per npm convention).
The release under the canary tag is to be considered unstable and potentially breaking.
You should not rely on it in production.
To start a new alpha version of the package follow these steps:
canary branch.git reset --hard origin/maincanarycanary.docsFormer home of the documentation and reference for this library. This is now deprecated and you should use links above.
libIncludes the files constituting the SDK and the associated types.
Top level files are split by feature. Most of them map 1-to-1 to an API (keep reading for the outliers). When APIs are
considered too small to be in a separate file, they are part of the api file.
channel and signal abstract the communication between an App and the host;locations exports available location where you can run App;initialize creates an initializer to start an App within Contentful's App Framework.All the typings are in the types folder and they map 1-to-1 APIs, when they make sense.
The entities file maps Contentful entities in TypeScript.
utils includes utility types, meant to save on characters to type.
scriptsIncludes utility tools for maintainers.
testIncludes unit tests (run by mocha)
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A JavaScript library to develop custom apps for Contentful
The npm package @contentful/app-sdk receives a total of 27,845 weekly downloads. As such, @contentful/app-sdk popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @contentful/app-sdk demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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