Code Highlighter Plugin

What is it?

The Code Highlighter Plugin serves as a chat tool for studenteds and users to demonstrate and compreehend code blocks in simpler, more visual ways.

Building the Plugin

To build the plugin for production use, follow these steps:

cd $HOME/src/plugin-code-highlight
npm ci
npm run build-bundle

The above command will generate the dist folder, containing the bundled JavaScript file named CodeHighlighter.js. This file can be hosted on any HTTPS server along with its manifest.json.

If you install the Plugin separated to the manifest, remember to change the javascriptEntrypointUrl in the manifest.json to the correct endpoint.

To use the plugin in BigBlueButton, send this parameter along in create call:

pluginManifests=[{"url":"<your-domain>/path/to/manifest.json"}]

Or additionally, you can add this same configuration in the .properties file from bbb-web in /usr/share/bbb-web/WEB-INF/classes/bigbluebutton.properties

Development mode

As for development mode (running this plugin from source), please, refer back to https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-html-plugin-sdk section Running the Plugin from Source