This is an entirely configuration-based Gatsby theme that generates a documentation website based on a series of Markdown or MDX files. It also exports a series of components that can be used within MDX pages.
If you're using this package, you'll also need to install gatsby
and its peer dependencies, react
and react-dom
. Next, install the theme:
$ npm install gatsby-theme-apollo-docs
You can configure gatsby-theme-apollo-docs
for use with any set of docs using the provided configuration options. You may also use component shadowing to customize elements like the logo or color scheme.
// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
pathPrefix: '/docs/apollo-server',
plugins: [
{
resolve: 'gatsby-theme-apollo-docs',
options: {
root: __dirname,
subtitle: 'Apollo Server',
description: 'A guide to using Apollo Server',
githubRepo: 'apollographql/apollo-server',
defaultVersion: '2',
versions: {
1: 'origin/version-1'
},
sidebarCategories: {
null: [
'index',
'getting-started',
'whats-new'
],
Features: [
'features/mocking',
'features/errors',
'features/data-sources'
]
}
}
}
]
};
Option name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
root | string | Must be __dirname |
siteName | string | The main title for the website, used in the <title> element and top left corner of the site |
subtitle | string | The page title that gets rendered above the sidebar navigation |
description | string | The site description for SEO and social (FB, Twitter) tags |
contentDir | string | The directory where docs content exists (docs/source by default) |
githubRepo | string | The owner and name of the content repository on GitHub |
spectrumPath | string | The path to be appended to Spectrum links |
trackingId | string | Your Google Analytics tracking ID |
algoliaApiKey | string | Your Algolia DocSearch API key |
algoliaIndexName | string | The name of your DocSearch index |
baseUrl | string | The origin where your website will be hosted (e.g. https://www.apollographql.com ) |
spectrumHandle | string | Your Spectrum community's handle/slug |
twitterHandle | string | Your Twitter handle, without the "@" |
youtubeUrl | string | The URL of your YouTube channel |
versions | array | An array of objects representing the versions that the website should generate |
sidebarCategories | object | An object mapping categories to page paths (see sidebarCategories reference) |
navConfig | object | An object defining the top-left navigation links (see navConfig reference) |
checkLinksOptions | object | Options accepted by gastby-remark-check-links |
If omitted, only one version of docs will be built, based on the files in the theme consumer repository. If provided, the versions
option expects an object mapping older versions' labels to their respective git branch. The current filesystem will still determine the "default" version. The default label for this version is "Latest", but is configurable by the defaultVersion
option.
defaultVersion: '2.5',
versions: {
'2.4': 'version-2.4'
}
The sidebarCategories
option is an object keyed by category titles. Each entry in the object is an array of page paths. The path should resemble the location of a Markdown/MDX file in the git repository, relative to contentDir
, and without the .md extension. Sidebar navigation items that are not a member of a category live under the null
key. To add an external link to your sidebar, your can provide a string formatted like a Markdown link.
{
null: [
'index',
'getting-started',
'whats-new'
],
Features: [
'features/mocking',
'features/errors',
'features/data-sources'
],
'External links': [
'[Principled GraphQL](https://principledgraphql.com/)'
]
}
The navConfig
option should be an object keyed by link titles. The values should be objects with description
, and url
properties. Check out the default theme options for an example of the expected shape of this data.
This theme generates pages based on Markdown or MDX files in the contentDir
directory of a repo. Your Markdown/MDX files should contain some frontmatter defining their titles and descriptions.
---
title: Introduction
description: What is Apollo Server and what does it do?
---
Apollo Server is the best way to quickly build a production-ready, self-documenting API for GraphQL clients, using data from any source.
Page URLs will be derived from the file paths of your Markdown. You can nest Markdown files within directories to create pages with additional path segments.
This theme exports React components that you can use in MDX files throughout a documentation website.
A button that follows our Space Kit design system. See the project in Zeplin for a visual look at the different button variations.
Prop | Type | Default value | Description |
---|---|---|---|
children | node | N/A | The content of the button |
size | string | "medium" | One of "small", "medium", or "large" |
color | string | "standard" | Either "standard" or "branded" |
variant | string | "standard" | Either "standard" or "hidden" |
A button that functions as an internal link using Gatsby Link. It accepts all props that the Button
and Link
components accept.
import {ButtonWrapper, ButtonLink} from 'gatsby-theme-apollo-docs';
<ButtonWrapper>
<ButtonLink
size="large"
color="branded"
to="/tutorial/introduction"
>
Try it out!
</ButtonLink>
<ButtonLink
size="large"
to="/intro/platform"
>
Learn more
</ButtonLink>
</ButtonWrapper>
A presentational component that only takes children
and is designed to render a row of Button
or ButtonLink
components, center-aligned and evenly spaced.
An expandable panel of content used to hide complex information or instructions that might be a tangent from the main topic of the content it lives within.
Prop | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
children | node | The content of the panel, usually includes an ExpansionPanelList |
title | string | The title of the panel, visible even when the panel is closed |
A wrapper element that should be used in conjunction with ExpansionPanelListItem
components. It renders an li
element with some styles baked in.
A list item for use with the ExpansionPanelList
. It comes with a cicular area to its left to render a number, glyph, or some way to indicate progress through a set of instructions. You can write Markdown within these elements if you keep everything detabbed and add an empty line between your content and the component's opening and closing tags.
Prop | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
children | node | The content of the list item, usually a block of Markdown |
number | string | The number displayed to the left of the list item, or a checkmark if "check" is passed |
import {
ExpansionPanel,
ExpansionPanelList,
ExpansionPanelListItem
} from 'gatsby-theme-apollo-docs';
<ExpansionPanel title="How to use the ExpansionPanel component">
Add a line break _between_ JSX tags and content to parse the content as *Markdown*
<ExpansionPanelList>
<ExpansionPanelListItem number="1">
<h4>h4 works well as a heading here</h4>
- markdown
- works
- here
</ExpansionPanelListItem>
<ExpansionPanelListItem number="check">
<h4>That's it!</h4>
> MDX is super fun
</ExpansionPanelListItem>
</ExpansionPanelList>
</ExpansionPanel>
Wraps adjacent code blocks to allow users to toggle between them using a dropdown menu.
import {MultiCodeBlock} from 'gatsby-theme-apollo-docs';
<MulitCodeBlock>
```js
// a JavaScript code block
```
```ts
// a TypeScript code block
```
</MultiCodeBlock>
All docs sites will eventually be deployed into a subdirectory, as configured by the pathPrefix
option—/docs/apollo-server, for example. Read this guide to learn more about publishing to a subdirectory.
To migrate an older Hexo site to this theme, follow this guide.
Are you using this theme in your own project? Submit a PR with your website added to this list!