Doc: Add "discuss" link to news posts

Assets/WebsiteAssets/css/site.css

@@ -523,12 +523,17 @@ div.navbar-mobile-content a.sponsor-button {
 
 .bottom-links {
 	display: flex;
+	flex-direction: row;
 	justify-content: center;
 	border-top: 1px solid #d4d4d4;
 	margin-top: 30px;
 	padding-top: 25px;
 }
 
+.bottom-links .bottom-link {
+	margin-right: 20px;
+}
+
 /* TOC */
 
 #toc ul {

Assets/WebsiteAssets/templates/main-new.mustache

@@ -63,13 +63,20 @@ https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/{{{sourceMarkdownFile}}}
 								Running in {{env}} mode!
 							</div>
 							{{{contentHtml}}}
-							{{#showImproveThisDoc}}
+							{{#showBottomLinks}}
 								<div class="bottom-links">
-									<a href="https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/{{{sourceMarkdownFile}}}">
-										<i class="fab fa-github"></i> Improve this doc
-									</a>
+									{{#discussOnForumLink}}
+										<a class="bottom-link" href="{{{discussOnForumLink}}}">
+											<i class="fab fa-discourse"></i></i> Discuss on the forum
+										</a>
+									{{/discussOnForumLink}}
+									{{#showImproveThisDoc}}
+										<a class="bottom-link" href="https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/{{{sourceMarkdownFile}}}">
+											<i class="fab fa-github"></i> Improve this doc
+										</a>
+									{{/showImproveThisDoc}}
 								</div>
-							{{/showImproveThisDoc}}
+							{{/showBottomLinks}}
 						</div>
 					</div>
 				</div>

packages/tools/website/build.ts

@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ const plansTemplateHtml = readFileSync(`${websiteAssetDir}/templates/plans.musta
 const stripeConfig = loadStripeConfig(env, `${rootDir}/packages/server/stripeConfig.json`);
 const partialDir = `${websiteAssetDir}/templates/partials`;
 
+const discussLink = 'https://discourse.joplinapp.org/c/news/9';
+
 let tocMd_: string = null;
 let tocHtml_: string = null;
 const tocRegex_ = /<!-- TOC -->([^]*)<!-- TOC -->/;
@@ -109,6 +111,8 @@ function renderPageToHtml(md: string, targetPath: string, templateParams: Templa
 		...templateParams,
 	};
 
+	templateParams.showBottomLinks = templateParams.showImproveThisDoc || !!templateParams.discussOnForumLink;
+
 	const title = [];
 
 	if (!templateParams.title) {
@@ -211,9 +215,10 @@ const makeNewsFrontPage = async (sourceFilePaths: string[], targetFilePath: stri
 	for (const mdFilePath of sourceFilePaths) {
 		let md = await readFile(mdFilePath, 'utf8');
 		const info = stripOffFrontMatter(md);
-		md = info.doc;
+		md = info.doc.trim();
 		const dateString = moment(info.created).format('D MMM YYYY');
 		md = md.replace(/^# (.*)/, `# [$1](https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/readme/news/${path.basename(mdFilePath)})\n\n*Published on **${dateString}***\n\n`);
+		md += `\n\n* * *\n\n[<i class="fab fa-discourse"></i> Discuss on the forum](${discussLink})`;
 		frontPageMd.push(md);
 		if (frontPageMd.length >= maxNewsPerPage) break;
 	}
@@ -333,11 +338,14 @@ async function main() {
 		source[2].sourceMarkdownName = path.basename(source[0], path.extname(source[0]));
 
 		const sourceFilePath = `${rootDir}/${source[0]}`;
+		const isNews = isNewsFile(sourceFilePath);
 
 		renderFileToHtml(sourceFilePath, `${rootDir}/${source[1]}`, {
 			...source[2],
 			templateHtml: mainTemplateHtml,
-			pageName: isNewsFile(sourceFilePath) ? 'news-item' : '',
+			pageName: isNews ? 'news-item' : '',
+			discussOnForumLink: isNews ? discussLink : '',
+			showImproveThisDoc: !isNews,
 			partials,
 			assetUrls,
 		});

packages/tools/website/utils/types.ts

@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ export interface TemplateParams {
 	navbar?: NavBar;
 	showJoplinCloudLinks?: boolean;
 	assetUrls: AssetUrls;
+	discussOnForumLink?: string;
+	showBottomLinks?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface PlanPageParams extends TemplateParams {