Feature Request: Kotlin support about alfred-docs-searches

[chrisgrieser]

Thanks for this amazingly useful plugin, I have no idea how it works, but happy to contribute once I understand how that could be done.

You're welcome! It's not too complex, most of the work is done by Alfred. What this workflow does is to look through some sort of index of documentation sites (e.g. a /docs folder in a GitHub repo) and re-format the list of files into a JSON file that Alfred understands. In most cases, this is less than 40 lines of code per documentation site. See for example the script fetching eslint docs sites from the eslint repo.

Those scripts do not need to be written in JavaScript, any language that outputs stringified JSON works. Though, it should be languages for which binaries are pre-installed on Mac, as this would otherwise introduce extra dependencies for this workflow to work. (Effectively, this means Python, JXA (Apple-flavored JavaScript), and Ruby I believe.)

Since I am not familiar with Kotlin, I'd refrain from creating the docs-search for it myself anyway, so you are welcome to add it! :)

[chrisgrieser]

I am going to close this since this issue is not actionable – however, you are nonetheless still welcome to contribute, as outlined above.

[chrisgrieser]

With version 2.0, this workflow has been overhauled to include all devdocs, meaning Kotlin is now supported.

https://github.com/chrisgrieser/alfred-docs-searches/releases/download/2.0.0/alfred-docs-searches.alfredworkflow