Component Plugins

Evidence includes a plugin system which can be used to add components and data sources to your project.

All Evidence projects include the Evidence core-components plugin by default. core-components has everything you need to build most use cases.

Component plugins are Svelte component packages which include one or more additional components which you can use in your project. Once you have installed and registered a component plugin, the included components will be available to use in your markdown files.

To use a plugin, you need to install and register it in your project.

Installing Component Plugins

	

		
					
		
		
npm install @acme/charting 
		

Registering Component Plugins

Once the plugin is installed, add it to evidence.plugins.yaml to register it in your project.

	

		
					
		
		
components:
    @evidence-dev/core-components: {}
    @acme/charting: {}
		

Component Aliases

If a plugin provides a component that you want to reference with another name, you can set up aliases when registering the component.

In this example, the @acme/charting plugin provides some component LongNameForAChart. After setting up aliases, it will be made available in the Evidence project as AcmeChart

	

		
					
		
		
components:
    @acme/charting:
        aliases:
            LongNameForAChart: AcmeChart
		

Component Overrides

Component plugins have the ability to override components from other plugins (e.g. you want to replace the built-in LineChart with a chart from a plugin).

Overrides are specified in an overrides list. In the example below, Evidence's built-in LineChart will be overridden by the LineChart component from the @acme/charting plugin:

	

		
					
		
		
components:
    @evidence-dev/core-components: {}
    @acme/charting:
        overrides:
            - LineChart
		

If you want to replace LineChart with a component named CustomLineChart, apply an alias to CustomLineChart first:

	

		
					
		
		
components:
    @evidence-dev/core-components: {}
    @acme/charting:
        aliases:
            CustomLineChart: LineChart # Rename CustomLineChart
        overrides:
            - LineChart # Override LineChart with the now renamed CustomLineChart
		

(Advanced) Using generic Svelte component libraries

If you want to use a Svelte component library that is not an Evidence component plugin, you can use the provides field to manually document the components that the library provides.

	

		
					
		
		
components:
  @evidence-dev/core-components: {}
  carbon-components-svelte:
    provides:
      - Button
      - CodeSnippet