docusaurus/docs/getting-started-site-creation.md

id	title
site-creation	Creating your site

Docusaurus was created to hopefully make it super simple for you to create a site and documentation for your open source project.

After installation and preparation, much of the work to create a basic site for your docs is already complete.

Site Structure

Your site structure looks like the following:

root-of-repo
├── docs
└── website
│   └── blog
│   └── core
│       └── Footer.js
│   └── node_modules
│   └── package.json
│   └── pages
│   └── sidebars.json
│   └── siteConfig.js
│   └── static

This assumes that you removed the example .md files that were installed with the initialization script.

All of your documentation files should be placed inside the docs folder as markdown .md files. Any blog posts should be inside the blog folder.

The blog posts must be formatted as YYYY-MM-DD-your-file-name.md

Create Your Basic Site

To create a fully functional site, you only need to do a few steps:

1. Add your documentation to the /docs folder as .md files, ensuring you have the proper header in each file. The simplest header would be the following, where id is the link name (e.g., docs/intro.html) and the title, is, of course, the title of the browser page.

   ---
   id: intro
   title: Getting Started
   ---
   
   My *new content* here..
   

2. Add zero or more docs to the sidebars.json file so that your documentation is rendered in a sidebar, if you choose them to be.

If you do not add your documentation to the sidebars.json file, the docs will be rendered, but they can only be linked to from other documentation and visited with the known URL.

3. Modify the website/siteConfig.js file to configure your site, following the comments included in the docs and the website/siteConfig.js to guide you.
4. Create any custom pages and/or customize the website/core/Footer.js file that provides the footer for your site.
5. Place assets, such as images, in the website/static/ folder.
6. Run the site to see the results of your changes.

cd website
yarn run start # or `npm run start`
# navigate to http://localhost:3000