community.flake.parts

A place to host documentation for flake modules created using flake-parts.

We use Emanote to serve the documentation from their individual repos.

How to add documentation for a new module

[!CAUTION] We are working to simplify the documentation setup for new modules. See https://github.com/flake-parts/community.flake.parts/issues/6

1. Put your Markdown docs in a sub-folder, eg: ./doc:

   • Use [[..]] style wiki-links to link between pages.

   • Add the following YAML meta[^imp] to your index.md page, replacing NAME with your module name:

     short-title: NAME
     template:
       sidebar:
         collapsed: true
     emanote:
       folder-folgezettel: false

   • Add a file index.yaml containing the following, replacing NAME with your module name, and USER/REPO with your GitHub repo info:

     page:
       siteTitle: NAME
     headHtml: |
       <snippet var="js.highlightjs" />
     template:
       editBaseUrl: https://github.com/USER/REPO/edit/main/doc
     sidebar:
         collapsed: false

2. Create a doc/flake.nix file with the following content, replacing NAME with your module name:

   {
       inputs = {
         cfp.url = "github:flake-parts/community.flake.parts/mod";
         nixpkgs.follows = "cfp/nixpkgs";
         flake-parts.follows = "cfp/flake-parts";
       };
   
       outputs = inputs:
         inputs.flake-parts.lib.mkFlake { inherit inputs; } {
           systems = inputs.nixpkgs.lib.systems.flakeExposed;
           imports = [
               inputs.cfp.flakeModules.default
           ];
           perSystem = {
             flake-parts-docs = {
               enable = true;
               modules."NAME" = {
                 path = ./.;
                 pathString = "./.";
               };
             };
           };
       };
   }

3. Run nix run ./doc to live preview the docs
4. Run nix build ./doc to build statically generated website of the docs

This will give you a local copy of https://community.flake.parts/ but using your local module docs (overriding the upstream one if any).

[^imp]: These organizational clutches will be fixed in future versions of Emanote (see https://github.com/srid/emanote/issues/494), such that you can just write all docs under ./doc.

For further information, see Emanote guide.

Publishing a module to this repository

• In flake.nix,
  • Add an flake input pointing to your module's repo
  • Add your module input to the default value of flake-parts-docs.modules option.
• In doc/mods.md, add a link to your module's documentation
• Run nix run to test the site locally. You can run nix run .#preview to preview the statically generated site.
• Open a PR

Local

In nix shell,

just run