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docs.nil.foundation


The technical documentation for =nil; implemented as a Docusaurus project.

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Overview

This project contains the Docusaurus instance that renders the technical documentation for =nil;.

Docusaurus supports MDX, which is a syntax/file format that combines Markdown and JSX. This means that Markdown rendering, React components and even 'raw' JavaScript can be freely used in the same .mdx file. When Docusaurus is run, it renders the contents of .mdx files as static HTML pages ready for deployment.

Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/NilFoundation/nil.git
cd ./nil/docs

Install dependencies:

npm install

Usage

To launch the Docusaurus instance locally on port 3000:

npm run start

Tests

Explanation

The =nil; documentation comes with an extensive suite of tests located in ./tests.

The tests repeat the structure of all major tutorials in the documentation, and tutorials themselves display the code used in the tests. If a test changes, so do the code snippets in the corresponding tutorial.

To achieve this effect, the docs use nil-remark-code-snippets, a fork of the original remark-code-snippets plugin. Inside a test, code blocks to be displayed in tutorials are placed between comment blocks that typically read //start... and //end.... Tutorials refer to these comments when opening a new code snippet using the three backticks (```)notation:

file=path/to/test start=START_COMMENT end=END_COMMENT

, where file is the path to the file with a test, start is the starting comment preceding the code snippet that is supposed to be displayed and end is the comment following the required code block.

Running tests

Before running tests, launch nild, faucet and cometa. Then:

npm run test

To run an individual test:

npm run test path/to/test

License

MIT