Substrate Docs

https://docs.substrate.io

Contributing

Thank you for your interest in contributing to documentation for Substrate! As a member of the community, you are invited and encouraged to contribute by submitting issues, offering suggestions for improvements to existing content in the form of a pull request, adding review comments to existing pull requests and issues, proposing new content, or creating new pull requests to fix issues or provide new content.

Working with `/docs` content

URL paths

All .md files added to ./content/md/en/docs/ folder will output an URL path without the /docs prefix, eg.:

index.md for a category page : ./content/md/en/docs/reference/index.md → /reference/
<article-name>.md for an article in its parent category ./content/md/en/docs/reference/glossary.md → /reference/glossary/

You can use any structure nesting needed, there is no limit of depth.

Media / Images

use ./content/media/images/docs/ folder for images to be included in /docs/*/*.md files
source images in .md: /media/images/docs/path/to/your/image/<image>.ext

Navigation config

update ./content/config/nav.yaml to add or amend items and linking to your content
- an exception being ./content/md/en/docs/reference/how-to-guides/... files that should only be listed on the main how-to guide page in the index page for these pages: ./content/md/en/docs/reference/how-to-guides/index.md, not to be included in the sidebar.

This config file is used to generate sidebar menu where:

menu is populated from the menu sequence (respecting order)
menu supports three level hierarchy
menu accepts external links, eg.: https://substrate.io

Local Development

Install

Navigate into your cloned local repo directory and install all dependencies.

# https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm is suggested, so that you
# switch to the correct version of node set in the .nvmrc file
nvm i

# Install dependencies
yarn

gatsby-plugin-substrate submodule

This website uses a submodule for shared components. To set it up please refer to the gatsby-plugin-substrate repository.

git submodule update --init --recursive

To update the submodule to the latest main branch, run:

git submodule update --remote

Configure environment variables

Copy example.env.development into a new .env.development file.

cp example.env.development .env.development

Config URL variables based on your preferable local setup. URL will be used for links generation between Substrate websites.

Default localhost port configuration:

GATSBY_WEBSITE_URL=http://localhost:8100
GATSBY_DOCS_URL=http://localhost:8200

Start development server

Navigate into your new site’s directory and use the following command to start the development server locally.

yarn develop

Troubleshooting

It is sometimes the case that gastby's cache gets corrupted when making changes. If you run into issues in local development, try to clean this and restart:

yarn clean
yarn develop

Security

Please report security bugs as stated in the static/security.txt file in this repository.

License

TBD, please open an issue to request any use outside of the official host https://docs.substrate.io/ at this time.

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