docusaurus/docs/getting-started-preparation.md

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site-preparation	Site Preparation

After installing Docusaurus, you will want to install and run the example site included. This serves dual purposes.

1. Verifying that Docusaurus was installed correctly.
2. Providing you the skeleton to create your site.

Verifying Installation

1. Generate the files for the example site by running examples using yarn or npm.

   npm run examples
   

   or

   yarn run examples
   

   If any of the files created by [yarn | npm] run examples already exists, Docusaurus will not overwrite them.

2. Run the server.

   npm run start
   

   or

   yarn run start
   

3. Load the example site at http://localhost:3000. You should see the example site loaded in your web browser.

Example Site Configuration

Loading the example site will create the following files/folders:

website/core/Footer.js
website/pages/...
website/static/img/...
website/siteConfig.js
website/blog-examples-from-docusaurus/...
docs-examples-from-docusaurus/...

The docs-examples-from-docusaurus folder will be at the same directory level as website, not in it.

The provided example files contain configurations that can be used as starting points for your site:

• The website/core/Footer.js file is a React component that acts as the footer for the site generated by Docusaurus and should be customized by the user.
• The website/blog-examples-from-docusaurus folder contains examples of blog posts written in markdown.
• The docs-examples-from-docusaurus folder contains example documentation files written in markdown.
• The website/pages folder contains example top-level pages for the site.
• The website/static folder contains static assets used by the example site.
• The website/siteConfig.js file is the main configuration file used by Docusaurus.

You will need to keep the website/siteConfig.js and website/core/Footer.js files, but may edit them as you wish.

You should keep the website/pages and website/static folders, but may change the content inside them as you wish. At the bare minimum you should have an en/index.js or en/index.html file inside website/pages and an image to use as your header icon inside website/static.

The website/blog-examples-from-docusaurus and docs-examples-from-docusaurus folders contain example blog and document markdown files. If you wish to run Docusaurus with these files, you need to rename the folders to website/blog and docs, respectively.