robot-inventor/astro-custom-toc

Astro Integration to generate a customizable table of contents

astro-custom-toc

Astro Integration to generate a customizable table of contents.

Warning

This plugin uses remark-comment. It may break other plugins that use comments.

Installation

npx astro add astro-custom-toc

Manual Install

Install the package

npm install astro-custom-toc

Add the plugin to your astro.config.mjs. This plugin must be inserted before the mdx() plugin if you are using it.

import { defineConfig } from "astro/config";
import customToc from "astro-custom-toc";

// https://astro.build/config
export default defineConfig({
    // ... other config
    integrations: [customToc(), mdx()]
});

Usage

To include a table of contents in your markdown file, add showToc: true to the frontmatter of the markdown file. The table of contents will be inserted at the location of the <!-- toc --> comment or at the beginning of the file if no comment is found.

---
showToc: true
---

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

<!-- toc -->

## Section 1

Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

### Subsection 1.1

Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.

Options

type RemarkCustomTocTemplate = (html: string) => string;

interface RemarkCustomTocOptions {
    template?: RemarkCustomTocTemplate;
    maxDepth?: number;
    ordered?: boolean;
}

template

A function that takes the generated HTML and returns the final HTML. This can be used to wrap the generated HTML in a custom template.

Default:

const defaultTemplate = (html) => {
    return `
<aside class="toc">
    <h2>Contents</h2>
    <nav>
        ${html}
    </nav>
</aside>`.trim();
};

maxDepth

The maximum depth of headings to include in the table of contents.

Default: 3

ordered

Whether to use an ordered list (<ol>) or an unordered list (<ul>).

Default: false

Development

npm install

Build

npm run build

Format and Lint

npm run format
npm run lint

Pull Requests

This repository uses Changesets to manage versioning and releases. When creating a pull request, please run the Changesets CLI and commit the changeset file.

npx changeset