Recommended way to include an additional file in a plugin about obsidian42-brat

[TfTHacker]

Oh, sorry! I misunderstood. Obsidian won't download other files, so you need to figure out how to include that in another way. I would include the template in your code.

I wish you success in your dev efforts!

[TfTHacker]

Hi Ben, I am glad to hear from you. When I developed BRAT, at that time I learned that Obsidian only downloads three files from the published package on your repo:

• manifest.json
• main.js
• styles.css

all other files are ignored. I don' think that changed. (Correct me if I am wrong).

What you want to do is include your dependency on handlebars so it gets built into your main.js.

You can see for example in another plugin I developed the include of a third party library:
https://github.com/TfTHacker/obsidian42-strange-new-worlds/blob/44fb0d9f9cfd8ca01369e99ac137f32d2b9679aa/package.json#L27

Hope this helps.

[benr77]

Thanks for your response. I think you are correct and that these three files are the only ones to be downloaded.

However, I was actually talking about a Handlebars template file, not the Handlebars library itself. The library is in my package.json but gets compiled in to the outputted main.js so that's fine. But I want to ship an example, default template file that can be used if the user does not define their own.

I'm wondering if I should just include this template directly in the source code, so it ends up in main.js instead of trying to read it from disk. I guess the other option would be to write it to disk on plugin load (if it does not already exist).

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks