doc.silverstripe.org

This repository contains the source code powering the Silverstripe CMS developer documentation website and userhelp website.

This application is build on Gatsby, a static site generator based on React. It sources content from the silverstripe/developer-docs repository for each major release.

This repository does NOT contain any documentation.

The developer documentation is stored in the silverstripe/developer-docs repository), in the en folder. For example, the documentation for the Silverstripe CMS 4.x is stored in https://github.com/silverstripe/developer-docs/tree/4/en.

The userhelp documentation is stored in the silverstripe/silverstripe-userhelp-content repo.

What to update when creating a new pre-release major branch, making a stable major release, or making a major EOL

When creating a new major branch for a pre-release major version

• Make sure you've added a new major branch to both silverstripe/developer-docs and silverstripe/silverstripe-userhelp-content
  • You probably need to add new major branches for various modules as defined in sources-user.js as well
• Add the new major to sources-docs.js and sources-user.js
• Add the new major to the version select in src/components/Header.tsx
• Add the major to the PRE_RELEASE array in the getVersionMessage function in src/utils/nodes.ts

For new stable releases, you will need to do the following

• Remove the major from the PRE_RELEASE array in the getVersionMessage function in src/utils/nodes.ts
• Update the getDefaultVersion function's return value to the new stable major in src/utils/nodes.ts
• Update redirects in netlify.toml

When a major goes EOL, add the major to the EOL array in the getVersionMessage function in src/utils/nodes.ts

Installation

To set up a local instance of doc.silverstripe.org:

• Clone this repository to an empty directory

   git clone https://github.com/silverstripe/doc.silverstripe.org path/to/ssdocs

Docker install

No local NodeJS nor gatsby-cli is required for this option.

• Make sure docker and docker-compose are installed and docker daemon is running
• Simply use ./docker/run to run gatsby commands
  • ./docker/run build would be equal to run gatsby build within a container
  • ./docker/run develop -p 8000 would run gatsby develop -p 8000 within a container.

Native install

• Install Gatsby CLI

Developing

Once cloned, from the root of the repository, run the command yarn dev-docs to instantiate a development server. This will consume all of the markdown files in both major release branches and allow you to browse the developer documentation site on http://localhost:8000 by default (see the Gatsby docs for instructions on customising the port).

Building

To test a static build of the site, first create a production environment file.

cp .env.development .env.production

Then, run the build.

yarn build-docs
yarn serve

These commands will give you an exact representation of how the site will run on a production server, with statically generated html files and server-side rendering.

Toggling between docs and userhelp

Whether the application uses the docs.silverstripe.org content or userhelp.silverstripe.org is determined by the environment variable, DOCS_CONTEXT. You can set this in the .env.development file, or use one of the script shortcuts:

yarn dev-docs
yarn dev-user
yarn build-docs
yarn build-user

Authoring

You can make changes directly to the source markdown files and get live updates in the development server without having to rebuild the app or even refresh the browser. The clones of the silverstripe/developer-docs repositories are in the .cache/gatsby-source-git folder in the root of this project. There are subfolders for 3/ and 4/, respective to their branch names. You can edit the files in en from there.

Just don't forget to merge your changes upstream once you're done. Building the gatsby app will not preserve your content changes, since the remote repositories are the source of truth.

Deploying content changes

Once your contribution has been merged into the master branch, it will be deployed to production via a Github action in the repository that holds the markdown files (e.g. silverstripe/developer-docs for developer docs).

Deploying app changes

Once your change is merged in to the master branch of this repository, it will be deployed to production.

Contribution

To contribute an improvement to the https://docs.silverstripe.org or https://userhelp.silverstripe.org functionality or theme, submit a pull request on the GitHub project. Any approved pull requests will make their way onto the https://docs.silverstripe.org or https://userhelp.silverstripe.org sites in the next release.

If you wish to edit the documentation content, submit a pull request on the developer documentation repository or the userhelp documentation repository.