What's In This Document

• Get Started in 10 Minutes
• Directory Structure
• Editing Content
• Adding Content
• Full Documentation

Get Started in 10 Minutes

Set up your local dev environment

Install Node.js

Install a Git GUI

Install a markdown editor

Using your git gui, clone this repository to your computer. When prompted for a repository location, use:

https://github.com/algorithmic-freelancers/docs.git

Make sure all the dependencies for the website are installed

Navigate to the /website folder in the repository. Open a command prompt using Shift+Right-click

# Install dependencies
$ npm install

Run your dev server:

Navigate to the /website folder

# Start the site
$ yarn start

Directory Structure

Your project file structure should look something like this

docs/
guide/
doc-1.md
doc-2.md
doc-3.md
some-folder/
doc-4
doc-5
website/
blog/
2016-3-11-oldest-post.md
2017-10-24-newest-post.md
core/
node_modules/
pages/
static/
css/
img/
package.json
sidebar.json
siteConfig.js

Editing Content

Editing an existing docs page

Edit docs by navigating to guide/ and editing the corresponding document:

guide/doc-to-be-edited.md

---id: page-needs-edittitle: This Doc Needs To Be Edited---
Edit me...

For more information about docs, click here

Editing an existing blog/experiment post

Edit blog posts by navigating to website/blog and editing the corresponding post:

website/blog/post-to-be-edited.md

---id: post-needs-edittitle: This Blog Post Needs To Be Edited---
Edit me...

For more information about blog posts, click here

Adding Content

Adding a new docs page to an existing sidebar

1. Create the doc as a new markdown file in /guide, example guide/newly-created-doc.md:

---id: newly-created-doctitle: This Doc Needs To Be Edited---
My new content here..

1. Refer to that doc's ID in an existing sidebar in website/sidebar.json:

// Add newly-created-doc to the Getting Started category of docs{"docs": {"Getting Started": ["quick-start","newly-created-doc"// new doc here],
...
},
...
}

For more information about adding new docs, click here

Adding a new blog post

1. Make sure there is a header link to your blog in website/siteConfig.js:

website/siteConfig.js

headerLinks: [
...
{blog: true,label: 'Blog'},
...
]

2. Create the blog post with the format YYYY-MM-DD-My-Blog-Post-Title.md in website/blog:

website/blog/2018-05-21-New-Blog-Post.md

---author: Frank LiauthorURL: https://twitter.com/foobarbazauthorFBID: 503283835title: New Blog Post---
Lorem Ipsum...

For more information about blog posts, click here

Adding items to your site's top navigation bar

1. Add links to docs, custom pages or external links by editing the headerLinks field of website/siteConfig.js:

website/siteConfig.js

{headerLinks: [
...
/* you can add docs */{doc: 'my-examples',label: 'Examples'},/* you can add custom pages */{page: 'help',label: 'Help'},/* you can add external links */{href: 'https://github.com/facebook/Docusaurus',label: 'GitHub'},
...
],
...
}

For more information about the navigation bar, click here

Adding custom pages

1. Docusaurus uses React components to build pages. The components are saved as .js files in website/pages/en:
2. If you want your page to show up in your navigation header, you will need to update website/siteConfig.js to add to the headerLinks element:

website/siteConfig.js

{headerLinks: [
...
{page: 'my-new-custom-page',label: 'My New Custom Page'},
...
],
...
}

For more information about custom pages, click here.

Full Documentation

Full documentation can be found on the website.