Substrate Developer Hub

This repository houses documentation for the Substrate blockchain framework.

The docs are written in markdown, processed by Docusaurus, and hosted at the Substrate Developer Hub.

Contributing

Thank you for your interest in contributing to the Developer Hub and to the larger Substrate community! Please review our contributor guidelines prior to any contribution. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to reach out on our substrate technical community channel.

Directory Structure

This repository is structured as a Docusaurus project with the markdown files organized in the /docs directory. Images and other assets are in the /docs/assets/ directory. The /website directory is a Yarn Docusaurus project with many helpful scripts (e.g. yarn build, yarn start) for working with this codebase.  In the /website directory you will find sidebars.json and siteConfig.js, which are important Docusaurus files. You will find the source code for some top-level pages in /website/pages/en. Follow our contribution guidelines.

Adding a new document

To add a new markdown document:

• Create your markdown document in a suitable directory inside /docs.
• If you have images in your document, put them in the /docs/assets/ directory.
• Documentation should follow our contribution guidelines.
• If you want your document to appear in the sidebar, add its reference in the /website/sidebar.json file under the   corresponding section.

Rename an existing document

To rename an existing document:

• Change the name or path of the document.
• After the change has been merged, go to the Crowdin project,   make sure the translation is already migrated to the new file automatically for all the target languages.
• Then go to Crowdin project settings, remove the   old source file in Files tab.
• If you don't have access to the Crowdin project, please send email to [email protected] with the   file information you want to remove.

Local Testing

• cd into the /website directory.
• Execute yarn install and then yarn start.

The Substrate Developer Hub website should open in a browser window.

Link Checker

Once the website is running, you should use the included Yarn script (yarn check-links) to ensure that your changes do not introduce any broken links and to check for any links that have broken since the last time the check was executed. Please ensure all links are fixed before submitting any changes; if you have questions about broken links that you did not introduce, please create an Issue.

Once you are done with your changes, feel free to submit a PR.

Updates

There is a helper script that can be used to update substrate.dev/rustdocs links in the docs/knowledgebase directory.

# This examples demonstrates updating links from v2.0.0-rc3 to v2.0.0-rc4
OLD_VERSION=v2.0.0-rc3 NEW_VERSION=v2.0.0-rc4 ./scripts/update-kb-rustdocs

Production Deployment

Our production site is at substrate.dev. To deploy to production, merge your update into the source branch. This triggers the CI to build the website AND also pull in multilingual translation from our Crowdin project. The final built static site is then pushed to the master branch and hosted on GitHub Pages.

Staging Deployment

We have a staging deployment at devhub-maindocs.herokuapp.com, which is hosted on Heroku. Please check with the devhub team for the username and password to access the staging site.

To deploy to staging, you could push to the staging-source branch in the repository. This will trigger the CI to build the website, pull in multilingual translations from crowdin, and have the final built static site being pushed to staging branch. This in turn triggers Heroku to pick up the latest commit from staging branch and deploy to the staging site.

License

Substrate documentation is licenced under the Apache 2 license.