mkdocs_fedi_comment

[!NOTE] This plugin requires a comments-server to work.

This plugin is meant to enable commenting from the Fediverse on sites build with mkdocs. This plugin uses the overrides provided by mkdocs-material. This means that a simplest configuration would look like

theme:
  name: material

plugins:
  - fedi-comments:
      base_path: https://comments.bovine.social/
      actor:
        name: mkdocs-fedi-comments
        handle: mkdocs_fedi_comments
  - search

The fedi-comments plugin provided by this package requires some configuration. base_path is where your comments server is located. This is used to determine the location of the ActivityPub objects via {base_path}/pages/{encoded_url} and for the API endpoint to retrieve comments from, i.e. {base_path}/comments/{encoded_url}.

Second the values under actor are used to create the used ActivityPub actor. In addition to name and handle, which are required, one currently can also specify summary and icon.

The sample site

The sample site is deployed to https://bovine.codeberg.page/mkdocs_fedi_comments/ and the corresponding installation of comments is configured with

[[pages]]
url = "https://bovine.codeberg.page/mkdocs_fedi_comments"
name = "mkdocs_fedi_comments"

Development

There are some python tests that can be run via

uv run pytest

Similarly one can check that the sample_site builds via

cd sample_site
uv run mkdocs build

This executes the plugin, which is included in the sample site as an editable dependency.

JavaScript component

The replies are displayed through a JavaScript component. It is automatically build with the python package. One can manually run this step via

uv run hatch build --hooks-only --target wheel

Development

First enter the js directory.

To visually develop the component run, you have to first generate the MSW service worker and the MSW Docs.

npx msw init public/ --save

then you can run storybook via

npm run storybook