Our generated docs are pretty verbose and space inefficient. This diff
has a few design tweaks to try and make sure that the information that's
emphasised is the stuff that's most important, and makes the typical
docs item use a bit less space in the process.
### Change Type
- [x] `docs` — Changes to the documentation, examples, or templates.
- [x] `improvement` — Improving existing features
Before:
After:
React components in docs now list their props, and appear under a new
"Component" section instead of randomly under either `Function` or
`Variable`. In order to have our docs generate this, a few criteria need
to be met:
1. They need to be tagged with the `@react` tsdoc tag
2. Their props need to be a simple type alias, typically to an
interface.
Both of these rules are enforced with a new lint rule - any component
tagged as `@public` will have these rules enforced.
### Change Type
- [x] `docs` — Changes to the documentation, examples, or templates.
- [x] `improvement` — Improving existing features
Typescript's type aliases (`type X = thing`) can refer to basically
anything, which makes it hard to write an automatic document formatter
for them. Interfaces on the other hand are only object, so they play
much nicer with docs. Currently, object-flavoured type aliases don't
really get expanded at all on our docs site, which means we have a bunch
of docs content that's not shown on the site.
This diff introduces a lint rule that forces `interface X {foo: bar}`s
instead of `type X = {foo: bar}` where possible, as it results in a much
better documentation experience:
Before:
<img width="437" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-22 at 15 24 13"
src="https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/assets/1489520/32606fd1-6832-4a1e-aa5f-f0534d160c92">
After:
<img width="431" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-22 at 15 33 01"
src="https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/assets/1489520/4e0d59ee-c38e-4056-b9fd-6a7f15d28f0f">
### Change Type
- [x] `sdk` — Changes the tldraw SDK
- [x] `docs` — Changes to the documentation, examples, or templates.
- [x] `improvement` — Improving existing features
This PR incorporates design tweaks from #2922 without the home page or
content changes.
These are:
- Replacing all `hello@tldraw.com` with `sales@tldraw.com`
- Fix mailto links.
- Showing the first item in a section on direct routes to the section
- Splitting the article page for human-written content from article page
for generated content
- Splitting the layout for the landing page from the rest of the site
(temporarily identical to the regular content)
- Removing headings from left sidebar
- Restoring headings in right sidebar for human-written pages with > 1
heading link
- Styling block quote
- Adjusting section link appearance / layout in header / menu
- Changing the order of search results to preference docs over examples
- Updating copy on events
- Removing copy on user interface menus
- Adding hero as prop to all articles
- Updated icon
- Fixing a few broken links
- Replaces the sandpack code blocks with hljs code blocks, except in
examples.
### Change Type
- [x] `documentation` — Changes to the documentation only[^2]
Reworks search to not be a page and instead to be inline dropdown.
<img width="763" alt="Screenshot 2024-02-05 at 13 22 58"
src="https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/assets/469604/4e5a8076-62cd-44bb-b8e7-7f5ecdc4af24">
- rework search completely
- rm Search Results css
- uses Ariakit and add appropriate hooks / styling
- I couldn't use Radix unfortunately since they're still working on
adding a Combox: https://github.com/radix-ui/primitives/issues/1342
- I'm open to other suggestions but Ariakit plays nicely with Radix and
keeps things open to migrate to Radix in the future
- fixes bug with not scrolling to right place when having a direct link
- adds categories in the search results - examples / reference / learn
- and adds category icons. Let me know if there's a better policy for
adding new SVG icons cc @steveruizok
### Change Type
- [x] `minor` — New feature
### Test Plan
1. Test searches using normal method for each type (examples, docs,
refs)
2. Test searches using AI for each type (ditto)
### Release Notes
- Docs: rework the search to be an inline dropdown.
- add TOC for Reference section
- make external links use _blank to open a new tab
- fix some more /gen links spots I missed, oops
- add a general redirect from old /gen links → /reference
- some more stylistic touchups
### Change Type
- [x] `documentation` — Changes to the documentation only[^2]
### Release Notes
- Docs: further cleanup following restructure.
This PR starts putting in place the high-level changes we want to make
to the docs site.
- It makes separate sections for Reference and Examples and Community.
- Gets rid of the secondary sidebar and integrates it into the main
sidebar.
- Groups the reference articles by type.
- Pulls in the examples alongside code and a live playground so people
don't have to visit examples.tldraw.com separately.
<img width="1458" alt="Screenshot 2024-01-30 at 09 43 46"
src="https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/assets/469604/4f5aa339-3a69-4d9b-9b9f-dfdddea623e8">
Again, this is the top-level changes and there's more to be done for the
next PR(s):
- create quick start page
- clean up installation page
- add accordion to Examples page prbly
- put fun stuff in header (from footer)
- landing page
- something for landing page of API
- search cmd-k and border
- cleanup _sidebarReferenceContentLinks
- external links _blank
- address potential skew issue with code examples
- have a link to other examples (next.js, etc.)
### Change Type
- [x] `documentation` — Changes to the documentation only[^2]
### Test Plan
1. Make sure examples work!
### Release Notes
- Rework our docs site to pull together the examples app and reference
section more cohesively.
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Co-authored-by: Taha <98838967+Taha-Hassan-Git@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Steve Ruiz <steveruizok@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Mitja Bezenšek <mitja.bezensek@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: alex <alex@dytry.ch>
Co-authored-by: Lu Wilson <l2wilson94@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Dan Groshev <git@dgroshev.com>
This PR adds the docs app back into the tldraw monorepo.
## Deploying
We'll want to update our deploy script to update the SOURCE_SHA to the
newest release sha... and then deploy the docs pulling api.json files
from that release. We _could_ update the docs on every push to main, but
we don't have to unless something has changed. Right now there's no
automated deployments from this repo.
## Side effects
To make this one work, I needed to update the lock file. This might be
ok (new year new lock file), and everything builds as expected, though
we may want to spend some time with our scripts to be sure that things
are all good.
I also updated our prettier installation, which decided to add trailing
commas to every generic type. Which is, I suppose, [correct
behavior](https://github.com/prettier/prettier-vscode/issues/955)? But
that caused diffs in every file, which is unfortunate.
### Change Type
- [x] `internal` — Any other changes that don't affect the published
package[^2]
This PR improves the author experience when working on the docs site.
When running `docs-dev`, the site's content will now update whenever a
content file is changed.
### Context
In the docs project, we generate content from two sources: from API
documentation generated by api-extractor and from markdown files in the
docs/content folder. Generating API docs is a relatively slow process
because it involves building and parsing TypeScript declaration files
for each package in the monorepo; however, generating docs from the
markdown files is basically instantaneous. The same script used to
address both tasks, which meant it was too slow to run on each save.
Instead, the script needed to be run manually or the dev server would
need to be restarted.
We now split the generation into two separate scripts. First, the script
runs to generate the API content; and then a second script runs to
generate the markdown content. The second script also imports and
combines the two sources of content. When we build the docs, both
scripts are run. When a markdown file changes, the new watcher only runs
the second script. This allows the site's content to be updated quickly
without having to generate the API docs each time.
Note that this does not incorporate live changes to package APIs, though
I can't think of a time where we be developing the docs and the APIs at
the same time.
### Change Type
- [x] `documentation` — Changes to the documentation only
