Website

Welcome to Astar Docs GitHub Repo.

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

How to contribute to Astar Docs using a local instance of the Docusaurus engine

Prerequisites

• Method 1: Make sure git and yarn exist as commands in your terminal or VS Code: https://yarnpkg.com/ (NOTE: Please make sure you use yarn 1 (classic) by using command yarn set version classic

• Git/Github: understand what the following commands do

  • managing branches (git checkout main and git checkout -b feat/your-new-branch
  • Commits (git add . and git commit, git push -u origin feat/your-new-branch)
  • Creating PR in Github
  • maybe: stashing (git stash and git stash pop are your best friends)

• Markdown basics

  • titles, subtitles
  • lists
  • hyperlinks

• Method 2: Make sure yarn exists as a command in your terminal or VS Code and Github Desktop is installed. All the git operations described below can also be found within the menu of the desktop application, and common operations are clearly visible on launch.

Setup: First time only

• Clone repo git clone https://github.com/astarnetwork/astar-docs
• Install dependencies by running yarn (cd astar-docs , yarn )
• yarn start - spin up a realtime website that updates dynamically based on your changes to the code.

New document / Modify existing document --> Submit a PR

• Get latest version of docs locally
  • Make sure you’re on the main branch (git checkout main)
  • Pull the latest version of the docs (git pull)
  • Create a new branch (git checkout -b feat/new-feature-name-here)
• Create/update the docs as you please
  • Spin up live docs (yarn start)
    • If you are working on a translation of a document use yarn start --locale IT (example for Italian) (checkout Docusaurus docs or further reference
  • Add new page/tweaks/etc
  • When you’re happy with it, ensure yarn build runs without errors
• PR and staging environment
  • Commit your changes and push the new branch up to Github (git add . and git commit, git push -u origin feat/your-new-branch)
  • Create a new PR on Github (https://github.com/astarnetwork/astar-docs)
  • Once PR is up, CICD will automatically build you a unique staging link. You can view the progress of this on the Actions tab on Github
  • Wait for feedback from the team

Working with images

• Please import and use the <Figure/> tag instead of ![image] as this enables smoother translation of docs to other languages (automatic reference to original images, no need to copy images to translated subfolders) and automatically applies some styling such as line breaks.

  • Example - as seen here:

    top of file:

    import Figure from "/src/components/figure"

    within the file:

    <Figure caption="Tokenomics Model" src={require('/docs/about/token-economics/img/tokenomics_1.png').default } width="100%" /> 

  • Please use absolute path to image (e.g. /docs/about/token-economics/img/tokenomics_1.png instead of img/tokenomics_1.png

Deploy to production

• When a PR is ready for merge, click the button at the bottom saying Merge and Close and then Confirm
• After a few minutes you should see your changes updated on the production site at [https://docs.astar.network](https://docs.astar.network)

HELP SOMETHING IS BROKEN

• Likely, a broken build got pushed to main somehow. Remove the commit from main and force push to main, reopen PR in a new PR.