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description: >
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2021 was an amazing year for this project as we shipped many new awesome
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2021 was a fantastic year for this project as we shipped many new awesome
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features and made this project sustainable
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search:
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# The past, present and future
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__2021 was an amazing year for this project as we shipped many new awesome
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__2021 was a fantastic year for this project as we shipped many new awesome
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features, saw significant user growth and leveraged GitHub Sponsors to make the
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project sustainable.__
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bring some interesting new capabilities.
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_This article showcases all features that were added in 2021 and gives an
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outlook on what's going to drop in 2022. Additionally, it gives some context
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outlook on what's going to drop in 2022. Additionally, it provides some context
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on the history of the project._
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[MkDocs]: https://www.mkdocs.org
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![Material for MkDocs 0.1.0 Search][Material for MkDocs 0.1.0 Search]
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It's important to known that at this point in time I've built Material for
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It's important to know that at this point in time I've built Material for
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MkDocs for [protobluff], the project I was really caring about. Almost 6 years
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later, nobody knows protobluff, but this little side project has taken off. If
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back in those days, you would've told me that big organizations like AWS,
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back in those days, you would've told me big organizations like AWS,
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Microsoft and CERN, as well as extremely popular Open Source projects like
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FastAPI and Kubernetes will be using this project in the future – I would've
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declared you insane.
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exist, it excels in a specific niche, and that niche is to be known as
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_technical project documentation_.
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Today, this project is not only popular, but funded by almost 300 individuals
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Today, this project is not only popular but funded by almost 300 individuals
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and organizations, resulting in a yearly budget of more than $50,000. This
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allows me to set aside enough time for the development of new features,
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bug fixing, stability improvement, issue triage and general support and still
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## 2021 in numbers
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2021 was a very interesting year, as the project has seen significant growth.
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2021 was an exciting year, as the project has seen significant growth.
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__166k people__ visited the official documentation in 2021, totalling in __1,6m
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page views__ which is an increase of 83% when compared to 2020. The average
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### Features
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It's absolutely mind blowing that __38 new features__ were added to Material
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It's absolutely mind-blowing that __38 new features__ were added to Material
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for MkDocs throughout 2021 – __that's a new feature every 9,6 days__ –
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which was only possible because of the constantly improving funding situation.
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Following is a list of all features shipped in alphabetical order, some of which
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Standing at the verge of the next year, it's safe to say that the project will
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continue to prosper and evolve, yielding many awesome features that will make
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technical writing more comfortable and flexible. Here's an excerpt of the
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features that will be see the light of day in 2022:
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features that will see the light of day in 2022:
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- __Instant previews__: [instant previews] will render a specific page section
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inside a tooltip when hovering an internal link, which will allow to implement
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- __Text annotations__: as a logical progression of [code annotations] which
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were added in 2021, authors will be able to add annotations to plain text,
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yielding excellent opportunies for side content. Of course, text annotations
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yielding excellent opportunities for side content. Of course, text annotations
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will be as easy to use as code annotations.
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- __Navigation pruning__: to optimize large documentation projects, Material
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Custom status types will also be supported.
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- __Hover cards__: as a further component in the toolkit of technical writing,
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[hover cards] will allow to arrange content in grids, which is especially
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[hover cards] will allow arranging content in grids, which is especially
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useful for overview pages. They will allow to arrange arbitrary content in
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grids, including code blocks, admonitions, etc.
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- __Blog support__: blogging support is still [under investigation] and expected
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to be one of the major additions in 2022. Blogging will perfectly integrate
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with writing documentation, allowing to use all components that are available
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in Material for MkDocs.
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with writing documentation, allowing to use all components available in
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Material for MkDocs.
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This list is incomplete. Additionally, many new smaller features will be added
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next year, just as in 2021. You can follow [@squidfunk on Twitter] to stay
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## [The past, present and future]
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__2021 was an amazing year for this project as we shipped many new awesome
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__2021 was a fantastic year for this project as we shipped many new awesome
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features, saw significant user growth and leveraged GitHub Sponsors to make the
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project sustainable.__
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