vitepress

What is vitepress?

VitePress is a static site generator powered by Vite and Vue. It is designed to be simple and performant, making it ideal for documentation sites and blogs.

What are vitepress's main functionalities?

Creating a Basic Site

This feature allows you to set up a basic VitePress site. The provided code snippet shows how to add scripts to your `package.json` to start the development server, build the site, and serve the built site.

```json
{
  "scripts": {
    "dev": "vitepress dev",
    "build": "vitepress build",
    "serve": "vitepress serve"
  }
}
```

Markdown Support

VitePress supports Markdown out of the box, allowing you to write your content in a simple and readable format. The code snippet demonstrates a basic Markdown file with headings and paragraphs.

```markdown
# Hello VitePress

This is a paragraph in VitePress.

## Subheading

More content here.
```

Customizing the Theme

You can customize the theme of your VitePress site by extending the default theme. The code snippet shows how to replace the default layout with a custom Vue component.

```js
// .vitepress/theme/index.js
import DefaultTheme from 'vitepress/theme'
import MyLayout from './MyLayout.vue'

export default {
  ...DefaultTheme,
  Layout: MyLayout
}
```

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README

VitePress (RC: release candidate) 📝💨

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VitePress is VuePress' spiritual successor, built on top of vite.

Currently, it is in the release candidate stage. It is already suitable for out-of-the-box documentation use. We do not plan to introduce any breaking changes from here on until the stable release.

Documentation

To check out docs, visit vitepress.dev.

Changelog

Detailed changes for each release are documented in the CHANGELOG.

Contribution

Please make sure to read the Contributing Guide before making a pull request.

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2019-present, Yuxi (Evan) You

Changelog

1.0.0-rc.25 (2023-11-05)

Bug Fixes

• double-slash format url should be external link (#3165) (7dbeac6)
• missing export types in localSearch (#3157) (0761062)
• theme: table row background-color in custom containers (#3179) (beecec1)
• theme: theme switch is not hidden on force-dark (#3155) (2276c1d)

Features

• export mergeConfig() (#3143) (a850786)

Performance Improvements

• reduce duplicate rendering in localSearch (#3170) (878f437)