Dark Documentation

Welcome to the source for the Dark documentation. Contribute your improvements as a pull request, or report problems in an issue.

View the live docs here: https://darklang.com/docs

The Dark docs are built using Docusaurus. If you're trying to do something beyond the scope of this README, check out their docs.

What's In This Document

• Get Started in 5 Minutes
• Project Structure
• Editing Content
• Adding Content
• How CI Auto-deploys
• Publishing Changes Manually

Get Started in 5 Minutes

To change these docs and test the results locally:

npm install
npm run-script start

Project Structure

There are two important branches:

• main
• gh-pages

The website is hosted from gh-pages, but everything there is auto-generated from main. When we want to make changes, we create a new branch off main with the format username/my-change and make as many commits as we need to. Then, we create a new pull request from that branch with main as the base. When the pull request is merged, CircleCI will automatically deploy the changes from main to the website (it runs a script against the source files on main and deploys the generated website to gh-pages).

Directory Structure

The project file structure in main is

docs/
  README.md -- this file
  .circleci/
    config.yml -- used to autodeploy via circle ci
  docs/ -- individual markdown documentation pages
    changelog.md
    getting-started.md
    assets/ -- images that can be referenced in the doc pages
    ...
  package.json -- helper scripts
  siteConfig.js -- core site configuration
  sidebars.json -- sidebar sections and pages
  core/
    Footer.js -- a customizable footer for the website. Required by docusaurus
  pages/ -- additional docs pages not currently linked from anywhere
    en/
      help.js -- help page
      users.js -- users of this project page
  static/
    css/
    img/
  node_modules/
  .gitignore -- ignores autogenerated files that shouldn't sync via git

Editing Content

Editing an existing docs page

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

docs/doc-to-be-edited.md

---
id: page-needs-edit
title: This Doc Needs To Be Edited
---

Edit me...

For more information about docs, click here

Adding Content

Adding a new docs page to an existing sidebar

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

---
id: newly-created-doc
title: This Doc Needs To Be Edited
---

My new content here..

2. Refer to that doc's ID in an existing sidebar in 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 items to your site's top navigation bar

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

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 pages/en:
2. If you want your page to show up in your navigation header, you will need to update siteConfig.js to add to the headerLinks element:

siteConfig.js

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

For more information about custom pages, click here.

Checking formatting

We run some tools to ensure that the docs are consistently formatted and to find common errors. If you run npm run format you should pass the linter.

markdownlint is run automatically in CI - you can run it locally as npm run lint.

How CI Auto-deploys

The .circleci/config.yml file describes the CircleCI configuration. It watches for commits/merges into the main branch, runs a script to generate the contents of gh-pages, and pushes gh-pages to github.

Publishing Changes Manually

NOTE: You shouldn't need to do this because CircleCI runs this automatically.

On the commandline (remember to replace <YOUR USERNAME> with your github username):

GIT_USER=<YOUR USERNAME> CURRENT_BRANCH=main npm deploy

If you're using ssh instead of https, replace GIT_USER=<YOUR USERNAME> with USE_SSH=true.