Fluence Docs

Fluence Docs are built using Docusaurus 2, a modern static website generator.

Contributing

• Generally docs hierarchy should be reflected in the file hierarchy, but ultimately the docs tree must be set up inside sidebars.js file. If you put a markdown file inside a directory - don't ever name it index.md - use the same name as the directory itself instead (e.g. basic-concepts.md)
• Currently the index page is redirected to /docs/learn/overview. This is because we don't have a design of what's best to place on the index page. The redirect is configured in the vercel.json file
• Avoid adding a lot of images. Images are added using ![short description of an image](./path-to-an-image.png) syntax. If you have to add an image - please put it inside the directory near the doc where it is used. Check out basic-concepts.md. Please use .png or even better - svg for diagrams and .jpg for photos, resize the image as small as you are comfortable and compress it using tinypng.com (or svgomg for .svg).
• When adding ANY github links please use permalinks - otherwise links will point to the wrong place eventually. I also added new experimental markdown related settings to .vscode/settings.json which help a lot with writing valid markdown. Also this vscode extension can help you find broken external links as well
• Please at least use spell checker inside your editor or maybe Grammarly and be attentive when writing docs - they are the face of the company in a sense
• Here is where you can add syntax highlight for other programming languages. Use ```aqua and ```air for codeblocks in these languages. Use ```sh for something that you intend to type in a shell. Maybe don't put $ signs and execution results right inside ```sh code-blocks for the following reasons: $ signs and commands output mixed with all of it make it harder to copy and use the code from the docs and also some of the commands output will be changed by us and will have to be maintained in the docs as well which is very inconvenient.
• Headings are not just a stylistic tool but also semantic one. Headings are used to give document a structure which is especially important for page navigation for certain people and also for generating valid quick navigation tree that is displayed on the right side of the docs. So basically the main rule is to not skip heading levels (e.g. don't do #Heading followed immediately by ###Heading - use ##Heading instead)
• For the lack of maintainer, Blog is currently removed from sidebars.js but we can add it back. It's still available and working
• For mermaid code to work you would currently need to do the following:

  Some text that you have in your md
  
  mermaid
  ```mermaid
  graph YourDiagram;
    A-->B;
    A-->C;
    B-->D;
    C-->D;
  ```
  
  rest of the text on your page

  Notice the blank line before and after the mermaid section
• TODO: would be cool to have docs near the code (e.g. put Marine docs to Marine repo) - I think it can be done with CI build process but I think there unfortunately is no out-of-the-box solution. If it would be possible - changelogs from github and fluence-js docs, etc. could be included in these docs

Installation

npm i

Local Development

npm run dev

This command starts a local development server and opens up a browser window. Most changes are reflected live without having to restart the server.

Build

npm run build

This command generates static content into the build directory and can be served using any static contents hosting service.