Livecodes Playground

Livecodes playground, an open-source client-side code editor plugin for Obsidian.md - powered by Livecodes.io.

Read about why Livecodes, it's features and how to self-host

[!IMPORTANT] The Livecodes codebase can be self-hosted but is not 100% off-line. Internet connection is required.

Installation

Community plugins

1. Obsidian.md/plugins or
2. Open Settings > Community Plugins > Browse
3. Search for "livecodes"

via BRAT (Beta Reviewer's Auto-update Tool)

1. Ensure BRAT is installed
2. Trigger the command Obsidian42 - BRAT: Add a beta plugin for testing
3. Enter this repository, gapmiss/livecodes-playground
4. Enable Livecodes plugin in community plugin list

Manually

1. download main.js, manifest.json & styles.css from the latest release
2. create a new folder /path/to/vault/.obsidian/plugins/livecodes-playground
3. move all 3 files to /path/to/vault/.obsidian/plugins/livecodes-playground
4. Settings > Community plugins > reload Installed plugins
5. enable plugin

Usage

Initial setup

1. create a folder inside your vault for storing playground configuration files (*.JSON)
   • default: playgrounds
2. create a folder inside your vault for storing playground markdown notes (*.MD)
   • default: playgrounds/notes

New playground

New playgrounds can be created via:

• New playground - (command) opens a prompt for the playground name, markup language, style language, CSS processors, and script language.

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• Quick playground - (command) and (ribbon menu) open a prompt for the playground name. The default markup, style, & script languages can be configured in the settings.

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• Open starter playground (command) opens a suggestion prompt with a list of simple starter playgrounds. These starter include _hyperscript, Alpine.js, Angular, Arrow.JS, Astro, Bootstrap 5, Bulma (CSS), C++, HTMX, Javascript, jQuery, Lemonade.JS, Lit, Lua, Lua (wasm), Markdown, MDX, modulo.js, Open-props (CSS), Perl, PHP, PHP (wasm), Preact, Python, Python (wasm), React, React Native, Reef.js, Riot.js, Ruby, SCSS, Solid.js, Stellar, Stencil.js, Svelte, Tailwind CSS, Typescript, VanJS, Vue 2, Vue 3 SFC

• New playground from CodePen (command) opens a prompt for a CodePen URL and attempts to import the pen and create a new playground. Please note: this command is experimental and is dependent on CodePen's source code for presenting pens. If CodePen's changes their HTML code, the command could stop working

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• Open codeblocks in Livecodes (command) Live-preview and Source mode. The command parses the markdown note for codeblocks and will attempt to create a new playground with 1-3 codeblocks (markup, style, script) based on the codeblock's language. Supported languages include html, mdx, css, scss, javascript, js, jsx, typescript, ts, tsx, astro, svelte.

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• Open in Livecodes - (codeblock context menu) via right-click (ctrl+click) in supported fenced code blocks. Reading mode ONLY. Supported languages include html, mdx, css, scss, javascript, js, jsx, typescript, ts, tsx, astro, svelte.

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• Open in Livecodes - (file context menu) via right-click (ctrl+click) for supported file extensions. Supported extensions include html, mdx, css, scss, js, jsx, ts, tsx, astro, svelte.

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• Open in Livecodes - (folder context menu) via right-click (ctrl+click) for supported file extensions. Supported extensions include html, mdx, css, scss, js, jsx, ts, tsx, astro, svelte. To activate the menu, the folder must have 1-3 files with the supported extensions. e.g. (index.html, style.css, main.js)

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• Obsidian URI - Create a new playground via importing of a raw JSON configuration file, easily hosted as a Github gist. The Obsidian URI expects 2 parameters, vault and gistUrl formatted as obsidian://playground?vault=VAULTNAME&gistUrl=RAW_JSON_URL The gistUrl needs to be URI encoded (see: Obsidian Help)

  e.g. obsidian://playground?vault=Playground&gistUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.githubusercontent.com%2Fgapmiss%2Ff558657bcde37c677724004c36ed8dcd%2Fraw%2Ff8a7173bbd17d0886534c2f2017385a5fb3cff48%2FJavascript_starter.json

Open playground

Playgrounds can be opened via:

• Open playground - (command) and (ribbon menu) opens a playground fuzzy search prompt.

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• Open playground - (context menu) via right-click (ctrl+click) for playground config files (*.JSON).

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• Obsidian URI - Create a new playground via importing of a raw JSON configuration file, easily hosted as a Github gist. The Obsidian URI expects 2 parameters, vault and playgroundPath formatted as obsidian://playground?vault=VAULTNAME&playgroundPath=VAULT_PATH_TO_JSON The playgroundPath needs to be URI encoded (see: Obsidian Help)

  e.g. obsidian://playground?vault=VAULTNAME&playgroundPath=path/to/playground.json

[!IMPORTANT] The above context menu options are only available when all file extensions are detected by Obsidian. Open Settings > File and links and enable Detect all file extensions

Issues and bug reports

Please submit issues, bug reports, feature requests, etc. to gapmiss/livecodes-playground/issues

Development

1. cd /path/to/vault/.obsidian/plugins
2. git clone https://github.com/gapmiss/livecodes-playground.git
3. cd livecodes-playground
4. npm install
5. npm run dev

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue for discussion before submitting a pull request with your changes.

Livecodes

This plugin is powered by the Livecodes SDK. The Livecodes SDK is licensed under the MIT License.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021-PRESENT Hatem Hosny

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