Plugin or easy way to generate a changelog?

[daninus14]

Hi, there have been some similar questions in the past, but they are from a couple of years ago.

Is there a way to have a statically generated changelog page in docusaurus potentially with links?

Nothing fancy, just a simple hook on compile that would get all git commits in the current branch, or maybe the last 100 or so, and simply list the files affected per commit with a link to the github repository or to the page in the docusaurus website, and display the commit message, the date, and the author. Just basic git log type information.

I'm sure this has been implemented before. Is there a simple plugin? If not, how can we add a hook to generate a page on build?

Thanks

[slorber]

This is definitively possible because we do that ourselves on our own website:

https://docusaurus.io/changelog

However it's not an official plugin and the code is a bit messy, but you can copy/paste it if you really want it.
In practice, it reuses/extends the existing blog plugin:

https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/tree/main/website/src/plugins/changelog

We may try to make it an official plugin in the future, but it's not a priority considering it can already be created in userland, or created as a third-party community plugin.