@strv/docs

@strv/docs

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An opinionated Docusaurus setup by @strvcom, used to help document products.

Introduction

This library is a pre-configured Docusarus setup generator, originally used to create the documentation for the STRV Website. It is composed of a set of defaults that aim at simplifying and standardizing the process of documenting projects – inside, and possibly beyond STRV.

If used to the fullest, this setup includes:

• An index homepage
• A general documentation builder (getting started, contributing, etc)
• A components documentation (architecture, codebase, etc)
• A section for ADRs (for architectural decision records)
• A client-side search system for the above
• Navbar links for the above
• A code-fragment rehype plugin

All of these are opt-outs, meaning they can easily be disabled through configuration, but will be on by default.

In the end, @strv/docs main output is a Docusaurus config, and further configurations are possible and expected for each project's specific needs.

Setup

1. Install the library:

yarn add --dev @strv/docs

2. Setup docusaurus.config.js:

Create a docusaurus.config.js file on the root folder. This is a minimal example:

module.exports = require('@strv/docs').docs({
  title: 'Example Project',
  url: 'https://docs-website.com/',
  baseUrl: '/',
})

For a more complete example, check the example project's configuration.

3. Add docs scripts (optional):

Add Docusaurus building scripts to package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "docs:start": "docusaurus start -p 8001",
    "docs:build": "docusaurus build --out-dir build-docs",
    "docs:clear": "docusaurus clear",
    "docs:serve": "docusaurus serve -p 8001 --dir build-docs"
  }
}

Configuration

By default, @strv/docs will try to guess which features you want to enable by checking the presence of some files in your project. Alternatively, these features can be turn-off manually at the docusaurus.config.js:

module.exports = require('@strv/docs').docs({
  customFields: {
    strv: {
      homepage: false, // disable the homepage index
      pages: false, // disable pages plugin
      docs: false, // disable general docs, found at /docs/general
      adr: false, // disable adr docs, found ar /docs/adr
      components: false, // disable components docs, spread across /src files
      changelog: false, // disable Changelog link adding
      github: false, // disable GitHub links
    },
  },
})

For some configuration above, no extra effort is needed. Some of them, however, require that you start creating docs in specific locations. Furthermore, the doc generating modules – docs, adr, and `component``- will use automated sidebars, which can be overriden by placing a sidebar file on specific locations:

Module	Description	Watched files	Custom sidebar
Pages	Add isolated React or MDX pages. You should add these pages to navbar or other links to get access to them.	./docs/pages/**/*.(md|mdx|js|jsx|ts|tsx)
General	Meant for general docs, not related to application logic	./docs/general/**/*.(md|mdx)	./docs/general/sidebar.js
ADR	Meant for architectural decision records	./docs/adr/**/*.(md|mdx)	./docs/adr/sidebar.js
Components	Meant for documenting current codebase components	./src/**/*.(md|mdx)	./docs/components-sidebar.js

Custom components source path

In case you want the components documentation to watch a different directory than /src, you can configure it in the docusaurus.config.js like so:

module.exports = require('@strv/docs').docs({
  customFields: {
    strv: {
      components: 'source', // would look for doc files under ./source/ dir
    },
  },
})

Be careful not to set a path that overlaps any other documentation kinds.