PhoneGap Documentation

Available for your viewing pleasure at docs.phonegap.com.

Under Development

This repository is currently undergoing a major update. At the moment, it is not published live to docs.phonegap.com. In the future it will be!

Installation

npm install

Running Local Server

npm start

This will start a local server in development mode. The server will generate all of the documentation to /out and watch for file changes. When a file is changed, BrowserSync will regenerate the file and refresh your browser.

Directory Structure

\
 phonegap-docs/
 |
 |__ assets/      # Assets that need to be rendered
 |   |
 |   |__ styles/  # Stylus files rendered to /out/styles/**/*.css
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 |__ docs/        # Markdown documents rendered to /out/**/*.html
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 |__ layouts/     # Layouts and view templates
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 |__ out/         # Outputted static website
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 |__ public/      # Static assets copied to /out/**/*
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 |__ docpad.json  # Configuration

Deployment

Production

Each commit to the master branch is deployed to http://docs.phonegap.com.

Staging

Each commit to the stage branch is deployed to http://stage.docs.phonegap.com.

Commits to master do not need to be staged. Staging is intended to test work that may cause issues in production, in particle design focused changes. For this reason, the staging branch is mutable. Feel free to delete it or force push over its history.

FAQ

Generator error from the "next" article returning a null object.

You may see an error such as :

error: Something went wrong while rendering: /Users/mwbrooks/Development/lib/phonegap-docs/docs/tutorials/optimize/index.html.jade
The error follows:

TypeError: /Users/mwbrooks/Development/lib/phonegap-docs/layouts/tutorialspage.html.jade:21
    19|       .prev  
    20|     -if(document.next)
  > 21|       - var next = getCollection("html").findOne({url:document.next}).toJSON();
    22|       a.page__navigation--next(href=next.url)!= "Next: "+next.title
    23|     -else
    24|       .prev  

Cannot read property 'toJSON' of null

This is because you are linking directly to the HTML document instead of it's clean URL directory path. Our generator uses the Clean URL plugin, which transforms each file.html into file/index.html. The original file.html continues to exist but will redirect to file/index.html.

When referencing a file, you should reference path/to/file instead of path/to/file.html. Referencing the HTML document will generate the error above.