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Developer Onboarding Personalization

1 post · Oct 2023

What this trail covers

PlanetScale has enhanced its developer onboarding experience by leveraging Markdoc, a Markdown-based syntax for creating custom documentation sites. This allows for more interactive and personalized content, enabling developers to quickly connect and query their PlanetScale databases. The system uses variables to inline user-specific credentials and extends code blocks with custom nodes to display filenames. Further customizations include dynamically swapping SSL certificates based on the user's operating system, providing a tailored and efficient onboarding path.

All PlanetScale trails
  1. Personalizing your onboarding with MarkdocThis post details the technical implementation of a personalized developer onboarding flow using Markdoc. It explains how Markdoc's superset of Markdown, custom attributes, tags, functions, and variables were used to create dynamic content. Specific examples include using variables to inject user credentials into code snippets and extending Markdoc nodes to display filenames above code blocks. The post also describes the implementation of platform detection logic to dynamically select the correct SSL certificate for different operating systems and provides a user interface for manual selection.