Improve beginner onboarding and setup documentation for Uno Extensions

[KL2400040448]

Describe the enhancement you are requesting
The current onboarding experience for new users of Uno Extensions can be improved with clearer step-by-step setup instructions and examples for common project types.

Problem / Motivation
As a beginner, it is slightly difficult to understand the exact configuration flow when starting with Uno Extensions, especially when combining it with existing Uno Platform projects.

Proposed Solution
Add a beginner-friendly quick-start guide with:

Minimal setup steps

Common configuration examples

Clear explanation of required dependencies

Troubleshooting for common setup errors

Alternatives Considered
Relying only on Discord, Discussions, and scattered documentation.

Additional Context
This will reduce confusion for new contributors and speed up adoption of Uno Extensions.

[DevTKSS]

@KL2400040448 hey there!
I created some time ago some PR's for the "Getting Started" with Uno Extensions. Not to all of them, but for e.g. the general Getting Started, Storage Docs, ThemeService. Would you consider to check if those might solve or partially solve your Request and let us know, what do you would like to get added exceeding this?

• docs: Improve Getting Started #2820
• docs(Storage): Improve Getting Started and Overview #2824
• Docs(Storage): Improve and add Storage Documentation #2710
• Docs(theme service): add mvux state using sample #2749
• docs: Update Theme switching docs and add visual content uno.chefs#1684
• docs(NavigationXaml): Improving xaml navigation Guide, seperate between Mvvm and Mvux #2742
• docs(WebAuth): Add Information about the full list of available to be used Properties in appsettings and add some usefull docs and sample links #2884

and because I myself am getting confused all the time, when searching e.g. mvux compared to others of the extensions in the side TOC, I suggested them to align those items for the general getting started with the "Overview" so we could have a clean seperation between the

• "Overview" -> should contain the named guidiance

• "Reference" -> should be more like a API docs which we dont have in Uno (to my disapointment 🙁 ) but those are more meant to not contain "getting started" contents 👍

• docs(TOC): Align Overview Items to improve user-experience while lookup #2898

[DevTKSS]

@kazo0 FYI

[kazo0]

Hi @KL2400040448, thanks for the feedback! This is a very valid point and I'll want to understand in more detail all of the problems you've encountered as this will be very valuable information.

1. Would you be able to specifically point out the spots in the docs that you found were lacking?
2. Which Extensions were you having issues with? Auth? Logging? HTTP? etc.
3. I'd like to better understand what you would like to see changed. So let's take a couple of the current docs articles as examples and see what could be changed.

Current Docs Examples

Auth

Looking at something like Auth Extensions, we have articles broken down for each auth provider here:

• Getting Started
• MSAL Setup
• OIDC Setup
• etc.

For these ones is the something unclear about getting Auth Extensions installed using the UnoFeature(s) and wiring it up in the app host?

Based on your list of criteria, I think the most important missing piece would perhaps be a Troubleshooting page for common issues and solutions.

HTTP

• Getting Started
• Refit
• Kiota

Troubleshooting would be a good addition, but I believe there are minimal setup steps and example code are present

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I won't go through each Extension as I'm not sure yet which Extensions you were attempting to use. It'd be best to have you provide some examples of where the documentation is either lacking or was confusing and we can come up with some solutions.