Website

This repository contains the source code of the RabbitMQ website, rabbitmq.com. Please make sure to read the Workflow section before contributing.

Workflow

TL;DR

Here is a summary of which version of the documentation corresponds to which branch and directory:

Version of RabbitMQ	Branch	Sub-directory	Served at
Development version (4.1)	`main`	`docs`	`www.rabbitmq.com/docs/next`
4.0	`main`	`versioned_docs/version-4.0`	`www.rabbitmq.com/docs`
3.13	`main`	`versioned_docs/version-3.13`	`www.rabbitmq.com/docs/3.13`
3.12	`v3.12.x`	root	`v3-12.rabbitmq.com`

Branches and versioning

The main branch is the production branch. Commits to it are deployed automatically to www.rabbitmq.com by a Cloudflare worker.

We keep several versions of the docs in the main branch. Docusaurus uses the following directories:

docs contains the docs of the future version of RabbitMQ, thus it is the work in progress. It is served at https://www.rabbitmq.com/docs/next.
versioned_docs contains one directory per version; for example, versioned_docs/version-4.0. The latest version is served at https://www.rabbitmq.com/docs. Older versions are served at …/docs/$version.

Changes should be made to docs and to any version they apply. Here is an example:

# Make changes to the future version’s docs.
$EDITOR docs/configure.md

# Test the change in a browser.
npm start

# Once happy, apply to the relevant older release series
cd versioned_docs/version-4.0
git diff ../../docs | patch -p2

# Test again in a browser.
npm start

# Commit everything.
git add docs versioned_docs
git commit

Please read the documentation of Versioning in Docusaurus to learn more.

Older versions of the docs that we don’t want to host in Docusaurus to limit the number of versions are put in branches of the form v3.13.x, v4.0.x, etc. These branches are deployed automatically too and they use domain names of the form v3-13.rabbitmq.com, v4-0.rabbitmq.com, etc. respectively. Note that these branches used as examples may not exist yet if the corresponding docs are still maintained in the main branch.

v3.12.x is a bit special in the sense that it is using the old static website generator. This one is deployed by GitHub Actions to a Cloudflare worker. It is available at https://v3-12.rabbitmq.com.

How to build

This website is built using Docusaurus 3, a modern static website generator.

Installation

You need to install JS components used by Docusaurus first with yarn or npm. The examples below use npm.

# for NPM users
npm install

You need to de this once only.

Local Development

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

npm start

To use a different browser, for example, Brave Beta, set the BROWSER env variable when running npm start:

BROWSER="Brave Beta" npm start

Build

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

npm run build

This is important to run this command before pushing changes to GitHub to make sure the build is successful. This is the command that will be used to deploy the website in production.

Copyright and License

The RabbitMQ documentation is dual-licensed under the Apache License 2.0 and the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Users can choose any of these licenses according to their needs. However, the blog is excluded from this license and remains the intellectual property of Broadcom Inc. Blog posts may not be restributed.

SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR MPL-2.0

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