See their repo for all the goods. They get the credit here. We like what they are doing and pull from them.

$ git clone [email protected]:hasura/gatsby-gitbook-starter.git
$ npm install
$ npm start

Get started by running the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/cryptowerk/docs.cryptowerk.com.git
$ npm install
$ npm start

Visit http://localhost:8000/ to view the app.

Write markdown files in content folder.

Open config.js for templating variables. Broadly configuration is available for gatsby, header, sidebar and siteMetadata.

• gatsby config for global configuration like

  • pathPrefix - Gatsby Path Prefix
  • siteUrl - Gatsby Site URL
  • gaTrackingId - Google Analytics Tracking ID

• header config for site header configuration like

  • title - The title that appears on the top left
  • githubUrl - The Github URL for the docs website
  • helpUrl - Help URL for pointing to resources
  • tweetText - Tweet text
  • links - Links on the top right
  • search - Enable search and configure Algolia

• sidebar config for navigation links configuration

  • forcedNavOrder for left sidebar navigation order. It should be in the format "/"
  • frontLine - whether to show a front line at the beginning of a nested menu.(Collapsing capability would be turned of if this option is set to true)
  • links - Links on the bottom left of the sidebar
  • ignoreIndex - Set this to true if the index.md file shouldn't appear on the left sidebar navigation. Typically this can be used for landing pages.

• siteMetadata config for website related configuration

  • title - Title of the website
  • description - Description of the website
  • ogImage - Social Media share og:image tag
  • docsLocation - The Github URL for Edit on Github

• For sub nesting in left sidebar, create a folder with the same name as the top level .md filename and the sub navigation is auto-generated. The sub navigation is alphabetically ordered.

To render react components for live editing, add the react-live=true to the code section. For example:

<button>Edit my text</button>

In the above code, just add javascript react-live=true after the triple quote ``` to start rendering react components that can be edited by users.

This is a static site and comes with all the SEO benefits. Configure meta tags like title and description for each markdown file using MDX Frontmatter

---
title: "Title of the page"
metaTitle: "Meta Title Tag for this page"
metaDescription: "Meta Description Tag for this page"
---

Canonical URLs are generated automatically.