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Version: 2.0.0-alpha.74

πŸ“¦ plugin-content-docs

Provides the Docs functionality and is the default docs plugin for Docusaurus.

Installation#

npm install --save @docusaurus/plugin-content-docs
tip

If you have installed @docusaurus/preset-classic, you don't need to install it as a dependency. You can also configure it through the classic preset options instead of doing it like below.

Configuration#

docusaurus.config.js
module.exports = {
plugins: [
[
'@docusaurus/plugin-content-docs',
{
/**
* Path to data on filesystem relative to site dir.
*/
path: 'docs',
/**
* Base url to edit your site.
* Docusaurus will compute the final editUrl with "editUrl + relativeDocPath"
*/
editUrl: 'https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/edit/master/website/',
/**
* For advanced cases, compute the edit url for each markdown file yourself.
*/
editUrl: function ({
locale,
version,
versionDocsDirPath,
docPath,
permalink,
}) {
return `https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/edit/master/website/${versionDocsDirPath}/${docPath}`;
},
/**
* Useful if you commit localized files to git.
* When markdown files are localized, the edit url will target the localized file,
* instead of the original unlocalized file.
* Note: this option is ignored when editUrl is a function
*/
editLocalizedFiles: false,
/**
* Useful if you don't want users to submit doc pull-requests to older versions.
* When docs are versioned, the edit url will link to the doc
* in current version, instead of the versioned doc.
* Note: this option is ignored when editUrl is a function
*/
editCurrentVersion: false,
/**
* URL route for the docs section of your site.
* *DO NOT* include a trailing slash.
* INFO: It is possible to set just `/` for shipping docs without base path.
*/
routeBasePath: 'docs',
include: ['**/*.md', '**/*.mdx'], // Extensions to include.
/**
* Path to sidebar configuration for showing a list of markdown pages.
*/
sidebarPath: 'sidebars.js',
/**
* Function used to replace the sidebar items of type "autogenerated"
* by real sidebar items (docs, categories, links...)
*/
sidebarItemsGenerator: async function ({
defaultSidebarItemsGenerator, // useful to re-use/enhance default sidebar generation logic from Docusaurus
numberPrefixParser, // numberPrefixParser configured for this plugin
item, // the sidebar item with type "autogenerated"
version, // the current version
docs, // all the docs of that version (unfiltered)
}) {
// Use the provided data to generate a custom sidebar slice
return [
{type: 'doc', id: 'intro'},
{
type: 'category',
label: 'Tutorials',
items: [
{type: 'doc', id: 'tutorial1'},
{type: 'doc', id: 'tutorial2'},
],
},
];
},
/**
* The Docs plugin supports number prefixes like "01-My Folder/02.My Doc.md".
* Number prefixes are extracted and used as position to order autogenerated sidebar items.
* For conveniency, number prefixes are automatically removed from the default doc id, name, title.
* This parsing logic is configurable to allow all possible usecases and filename patterns.
* Use "false" to disable this behavior and leave the docs untouched.
*/
numberPrefixParser: function (filename) {
// Implement your own logic to extract a potential number prefix
const numberPrefix = findNumberPrefix(filename);
// Prefix found: return it with the cleaned filename
if (numberPrefix) {
return {
numberPrefix,
filename: filename.replace(prefix, ''),
};
}
// No number prefix found
return {numberPrefix: undefined, filename};
},
/**
* Theme components used by the docs pages
*/
docLayoutComponent: '@theme/DocPage',
docItemComponent: '@theme/DocItem',
/**
* Remark and Rehype plugins passed to MDX
*/
remarkPlugins: [
/* require('remark-math') */
],
rehypePlugins: [],
/**
* Custom Remark and Rehype plugins passed to MDX before
* the default Docusaurus Remark and Rehype plugins.
*/
beforeDefaultRemarkPlugins: [],
beforeDefaultRehypePlugins: [],
/**
* Whether to display the author who last updated the doc.
*/
showLastUpdateAuthor: false,
/**
* Whether to display the last date the doc was updated.
*/
showLastUpdateTime: false,
/**
* By default, versioning is enabled on versioned sites.
* This is a way to explicitly disable the versioning feature.
*/
disableVersioning: false,
/**
* Skip the next release docs when versioning is enabled.
* This will not generate HTML files in the production build for documents
* in `/docs/next` directory, only versioned docs.
*/
excludeNextVersionDocs: false,
/**
* The last version is the one we navigate to in priority on versioned sites
* It is the one displayed by default in docs navbar items
* By default, the last version is the first one to appear in versions.json
* By default, the last version is at the "root" (docs have path=/docs/myDoc)
* Note: it is possible to configure the path and label of the last version
* Tip: using lastVersion: 'current' make sense in many cases
*/
lastVersion: undefined,
/**
* The docusaurus versioning defaults don't make sense for all projects
* This gives the ability customize the label and path of each version
* You may not like that default version
*/
versions: {
/*
Example configuration:
current: {
label: 'Android SDK v2.0.0 (WIP)',
path: 'android-2.0.0',
},
'1.0.0': {
label: 'Android SDK v1.0.0',
path: 'android-1.0.0',
},
*/
},
/**
* Sometimes you only want to include a subset of all available versions.
* Tip: limit to 2 or 3 versions to improve startup and build time in dev and deploy previews
*/
onlyIncludeVersions: undefined, // ex: ["current", "1.0.0", "2.0.0"]
},
],
],
};

Markdown Frontmatter#

Markdown documents can use the following markdown frontmatter metadata fields, enclosed by a line --- on either side:

  • id: A unique document id. If this field is not present, the document's id will default to its file name (without the extension)
  • title: The title of your document. If this field is not present, the document's title will default to its id
  • hide_title: Whether to hide the title at the top of the doc. By default, it is false
  • hide_table_of_contents: Whether to hide the table of contents to the right. By default it is false
  • sidebar_label: The text shown in the document sidebar and in the next/previous button for this document. If this field is not present, the document's sidebar_label will default to its title
  • sidebar_position: Permits to control the position of a doc inside the generated sidebar slice, when using autogenerated sidebar items. Can be Int or Float.
  • parse_number_prefixes: When a document has a number prefix (001 - My Doc.md, 2. MyDoc.md...), it is automatically parsed and extracted by the plugin numberPrefixParser, and the number prefix is used as sidebar_position. Use parse_number_prefixes: false to disable number prefix parsing on this doc
  • custom_edit_url: The URL for editing this document. If this field is not present, the document's edit URL will fall back to editUrl from options fields passed to docusaurus-plugin-content-docs
  • keywords: Keywords meta tag for the document page, for search engines
  • description: The description of your document, which will become the <meta name="description" content="..."/> and <meta property="og:description" content="..."/> in <head>, used by search engines. If this field is not present, it will default to the first line of the contents
  • image: Cover or thumbnail image that will be used when displaying the link to your post
  • slug: Allows to customize the document url (/<routeBasePath>/<slug>). Support multiple patterns: slug: my-doc, slug: /my/path/myDoc, slug: /

Example:

---
id: doc-markdown
title: Markdown Features
hide_title: false
hide_table_of_contents: false
sidebar_label: Markdown :)
custom_edit_url: https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/edit/master/docs/api-doc-markdown.md
description: How do I find you when I cannot solve this problem
keywords:
- docs
- docusaurus
image: https://i.imgur.com/mErPwqL.png
slug: /myDoc
---
My Document Markdown content

i18n#

Read the i18n introduction first.

Translation files location#

  • Base path: website/i18n/<locale>/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs
  • Multi-instance path: website/i18n/<locale>/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs-<pluginId>
  • JSON files: extracted with docusaurus write-translations
  • Markdown files: website/i18n/<locale>/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/<version>

Example file-system structure#

website/i18n/<locale>/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs
β”‚
β”‚ # translations for website/docs
β”œβ”€β”€ current
β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ api
β”‚Β Β  β”‚Β Β  └── config.md
β”‚Β Β  └── getting-started.md
β”œβ”€β”€ current.json
β”‚
β”‚ # translations for website/versioned_docs/version-1.0.0
β”œβ”€β”€ version-1.0.0
β”‚Β Β  β”œβ”€β”€ api
β”‚Β Β  β”‚Β Β  └── config.md
β”‚Β Β  └── getting-started.md
└── version-1.0.0.json
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