handbook-hello
Learn to build a Stimulus controller by creating a greeting controller with targets, actions, and DOM event handling using Stimulus JS documentation.
Instructions
Step-by-step tutorial for building your first Stimulus controller - covers creating a greeting controller with targets, actions, and DOM event handling
Input Schema
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Implementation Reference
- src/index.ts:21-43 (handler)The anonymous async handler function executed when the 'handbook-hello' tool is called. It reads the specific markdown file content using readMarkdownFile(path.join('handbook', '02_hello_stimulus.md')) and returns it as an MCP text content block, or an error message if failed.async () => { try { const content = await readMarkdownFile(path.join(folder, file)); return { content: [ { type: "text", text: content } ] }; } catch (error) { const errorMessage = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error); return { content: [ { type: "text", text: `Error reading ${file}: ${errorMessage}` } ] }; } }
- src/index.ts:17-45 (registration)Dynamic registration loop that creates and registers the 'handbook-hello' tool (and all other doc tools) on the MCP server using server.tool(), mapping each config entry to a tool name.docFiles.forEach(({ folder, file, name, description }) => { server.tool( name, description, async () => { try { const content = await readMarkdownFile(path.join(folder, file)); return { content: [ { type: "text", text: content } ] }; } catch (error) { const errorMessage = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error); return { content: [ { type: "text", text: `Error reading ${file}: ${errorMessage}` } ] }; } } ); });
- src/config.ts:27-32 (registration)Configuration entry in docFiles array that defines the 'handbook-hello' tool: its name, description, folder, and source markdown file.{ folder: 'handbook', file: '02_hello_stimulus.md', name: 'handbook-hello', description: 'Step-by-step tutorial for building your first Stimulus controller - covers creating a greeting controller with targets, actions, and DOM event handling' },
- src/documentReader.ts:14-61 (helper)Helper function readMarkdownFile that implements the core logic for fetching markdown content from cache, GitHub, or local files, used by all doc tool handlers including 'handbook-hello'.export async function readMarkdownFile(filename: string): Promise<string> { const filePath = path.join(docsFolder, filename); if (!filePath.startsWith(docsFolder)) { throw new Error("Invalid file path"); } // Get current commit info if we don't have it yet if (!mainBranchInfo) { try { const commitInfo = await fetchMainBranchInformation(); const cacheKey = `${commitInfo.sha.substring(0, 7)}-${commitInfo.timestamp}`; mainBranchInfo = { ...commitInfo, cacheKey }; } catch (shaError) { console.error('Failed to get GitHub commit info, falling back to direct fetch'); } } // Try to read from cache first if we have commit info if (mainBranchInfo) { const cachedFilePath = path.join(cacheFolder, mainBranchInfo.cacheKey, filename); try { const content = await fs.promises.readFile(cachedFilePath, "utf-8"); console.error(`Using cached content for ${mainBranchInfo.cacheKey}: ${filename}`); return content; } catch (cacheError) { // Cache miss, continue to fetch from GitHub } } // Fetch from GitHub try { return await fetchFromGitHub(filename, mainBranchInfo?.cacheKey); } catch (githubError) { console.error(`GitHub fetch failed: ${githubError}, attempting to read from local files...`); // Fallback: read from local files try { return await fs.promises.readFile(filePath, "utf-8"); } catch (localError) { const githubErrorMessage = githubError instanceof Error ? githubError.message : String(githubError); const localErrorMessage = localError instanceof Error ? localError.message : String(localError); throw new Error(`Failed to read file from GitHub (${githubErrorMessage}) and locally (${localErrorMessage})`); } } }