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Aztec Network Documentation

Documentation for the Aztec Network, built with docusaurus

You can view the latest successful build here: https://docs.aztec.network

Files

• .gitignore - This specifies which files Git should ignore when committing and pushing to remote repositories.
• docusaurus.config.js - This is the configuration file for Docusaurus. You can manage the links in the header and footer, and site metadata here. A more in-depth introduction to this configuration file is available on the Docusaurus website and full documentation for the API is here.
• package.json - This specifies the dependencies for the website and the commands that you can run with yarn.
• sidebars.js - This specifies the sidebars for your documentation. The full documentation for this file is available on the Docusaurus website.
• yarn.lock - This specifies the full dependencies for the website including the dependencies of the dependencies listed in package.json. Do not edit this file directly. Edit package.json instead, then run yarn as described above.

The .md files in the docs/ directory are the docs. See the Docusaurus website for the full documentation on how to create docs and to manage the metadata.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community. Please review our contribution guidelines for more information.

Docusaurus

This website is built using Docusaurus 2, a modern static website generator.

Installation

$ yarn

Development

Locally

To build; serve to localhost:3000; and watch for changes:

$ yarn start:dev:local

Remotely (on mainframe)

To build; serve to localhost:3000; and watch for changes:

$ yarn start:dev

This command preprocesses #include_code macros, then builds the html, then starts a local development server and opens up a browser window (at localhost:3000, by default). Most changes are reflected live without having to restart the server.

Build

$ yarn build

This command generates static content into the build directory and can be served using any static contents hosting service. When run on Netlify, it will also build the typescript projects needed for extracting type information via typedoc.

Macros

#include_code

You can embed code snippets into a .md/.mdx file from code which lives elsewhere in the repo.

• In your markdown file:
  • #include_code identifier path/from/repo/root/to/file.ts language
  • E.g. #include_code hello path/from/repo/root/to/file.ts typescript
  • See here for supported languages and the exact name to use for that language.
• In the corresponding code delineate the code snippet with comments:

  • some code
    some code
    // docs:start:hello
    more code
    more code
    // this-will-error <-- you can use docusaurus highlighting comments.
    this code will be highlighted red
    more code
    // highlight-next-line
    this line will be highlighted
    more code
    // highlight-start
    this line will be highlighted
    this line will be highlighted
    // highlight-end
    more code
    // docs:end:hello
    more code

• You can even include chunks of the same piece of code (with different highlighting preferences) into different parts of the docs:

  • some code
    some code
    // docs:start:hello:goodbye
    this code will appear in the 'hello' snippet and the 'goodbye' snippet.
    this code will appear in the 'hello' snippet and the 'goodbye' snippet.
    // this-will-error
    this code will be highlighted red in all snippets.
    // highlight-next-line:goodbye
    this line will be highlighted only in the 'goodbye' snippet.
    // highlight-start:goodbye:hello
    this line will be highlighted in both the `hello` and `goodbye` snippets
    this line will be highlighted in both the `hello` and `goodbye` snippets
    // highlight-end:goodbye
    this line will be highlighted only in the 'hello' snippet.
    // highlight-end:hello
    this code will appear in the 'hello' snippet and the 'goodbye' snippet.
    // docs:end:goodbye
    this code will appear only in the 'hello' snippet.
    // docs:end:hello
    some code
    some code

  • Somewhere in your markdown, you can then write:
  • #include_code hello path/from/repo/root/to/file.ts typescript
  • And somewhere else, you can write:
  • #include_code goodbye path/from/repo/root/to/file.ts typescript
• You can add as a last optional parameter a comma-separated list of options to tweak the display of the code block, for example:
  • #include_code hello path/from/repo/root/to/file.ts typescript noTitle,noLineNumbers,noSourceLink
• Ironically, we can't show you a rendering of these examples, because this README.md file doesn't support the #include_code macro!

See here for another way to include code, although this approach is flakier, so the above #include_code macro is preferred.

#include_aztec_version

This macros will be replaced inline with the current aztec packages tag, which is aztec-packages-v0.7.10 at the time of these writing. This value is sourced from .release-please-manifest.json on the project root.

Alternatively, you can also use the AztecPackagesVersion() js function, which you need to import explicitly:

import { AztecPackagesVersion } from "@site/src/components/Version";
<>{AztecPackagesVersion()}</>

#include_noir_version

This macros will be replaced inline with the required nargo version, which is 0.11.1-aztec.0 at the time of these writing. This value is sourced from yarn-project/noir-compiler/src/noir-version.json.

Alternatively, you can also use the NoirVersion() js function, which you need to import explicitly:

import { NoirVersion } from "@site/src/components/Version";
<>{NoirVersion()}</>