Is it possible and advisable to use Antora's UI customization to generate a Google Sheets-like help widget?

Question

I would like to use Antora to create a Google Sheet-like widget on a web app written in React. I wanted to see if the recommended approach is to write this in React or to utilize Antora's UI customization capabilities.

I have not tried to prototype either of these approaches yet.

Answer 1

Antora is a static site generator (SSG), so that's overkill for your use case and would add unnecessary complexity.

Antora documentation is authored in Asciidoc. Instead of using Antora, you can use asciidoctor to transform Asciidoc->HTML. There is asciidoctor.js, which is transpiled from the asciidoctor Ruby source, and that would be a good fit for a React app.