This repository contains the website running docs.deno.com. The intent of this project is to centralize all official Deno documentation content in a single website. The Deno Docs site is built using Lume, an extremely fast static site generator.
The docs.deno.com
website is hosted on Deno Deploy.
Install Deno.
You can then start the local development server with:
This will launch a browser window open to localhost:3000, where you will see any doc content changes you make update live. Here redirects will not work. If you want redirects to work, you need to run:
deno task build deno task prod
Which will start a Deno server on localhost:8000 used in production, which handles redirects.
the above commands will defauilt to performing as complete build of the site including all of the more expensive operations. You can also perform a lighter build by running:
This will build the site without generating the Open Graph images and other more time-consuming operations which might be desirable to skip during local developement work.
Developing styles and componentsWe are increasingly making use of global components to improve consistency and reduce duplication. A styleguide has been created to preview and develop these components and is generated during the build process.
You can browse to it in the site at /styleguide/
To avoid longer build times of the entire site and all of its content while developing UI elements and components, a styleguide-only build is avaiable which performs the initial global configureation for the site, but then only generates and watches for changes in the /styleguide
folder of the repo.
To work on just the components and UI elements and review them within styleguide, run:
Then browse to the styleguide section of the site at /styleguide/
The actual content of the docs site is found mostly in these folders:
runtime
- docs for the Deno CLI / runtimedeploy
- docs for the Deno Deploy cloud servicesubhosting
- docs for Deno Subhostingexamples
- docs for the Examples sectionMost files are markdown, but even markdown files are processed with MDX, which enables you to use JSX syntax within your markdown files.
Left navigation for the different doc sections are configured in the _data.ts
files in their respective content directories.
runtime/_data.ts
- sidebar config for the Runtime sectiondeploy/_data.ts
- sidebar config for the Deno Deploy sectionStatic files (like screenshots) can be included directly in the runtime
, deploy
, or kv
folders, and referenced by relative URLs in your markdown.
The reference docs served at /api
are generated via the deno doc
subcommand. To generate the reference docs locally, run:
This will generate the reference docs, and you can use the serve
or build
tasks.
The API reference documentation is generated from type definitions in the Deno source code. The API reference content can be edited by modifying the JSDoc comments in the corresponding d.ts
files in the Deno source code. Once merged, the changes will be reflected in the API reference documentation when the Deno documentation site is next updated.
In order to preview changes to the API reference, take the following steps:
d_deno
to point to your local build of the Deno CLI (typically in the target/debug/deno
directory of your CLI repo)d_deno task reference
deno task serve
command in the root directory to see the changesPhilosophically, we want to maintain as few discrete versions of the documentation as possible. This will reduce confusion for users (reduce the number of versions they need to think about), improve search indexing, and help us maintain the docs by keeping our build times faster.
In general, we should only version the documentation when we want to concurrently maintain several versions of the docs, like for major/LTS versions. For example - the Node.js docs are only versioned for major releases, like 20.x
and 19.x
. We will adopt this pattern as well, and won't have versioned docs for patch or feature releases.
For additive changes, it should usually be sufficient to indicate which version a feature or API was released in. For example - in the Node 20 docs, the register function is marked as being added in version 20.6.0
.
We are very grateful for any help you can offer to improve Deno's documentation! For any small copy changes or fixes, please feel free to submit a pull request directly to the main
branch of this repository.
For larger changes, please create a GitHub issue first to describe your proposed updates. It will be better to get feedback on your concept first before going to the trouble of writing a large number of docs!
Over time, we will add more in the way of linting and formatting to the pull request process. But for now, you should merely ensure that npm run build
succeeds without error before submitting a pull request. This will ensure that there are no broken links or invalid MDX syntax in the content you have authored.
Deno by Example is a collection of small snippets of code, tutorials and videos showcasing various functions of the APIs implemented in Deno.
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To add an example, create a file in the examples/scripts
directory. The file name should be a short description of the example (in kebab case) and the contents should be the code for the example. The file should be in the .ts
format. The file should start with a JSDoc style multi line comment that describes the example:
/** * @title HTTP server: Hello World * @difficulty intermediate * @tags cli, deploy * @run --allow-net <url> * @group Basics * * An example of a HTTP server that serves a "Hello World" message. */
You should add a title, a difficulty level (beginner
or intermediate
), and a list of tags (cli
, deploy
, web
depending on where an example is runnable). The @run
tag should be included if the example can be run locally by just doing deno run <url>
. If running requires permissions, add these:
/** * ... * @run --allow-net --allow-read <url> */
After the pragmas, you can add a description of the example. This is optional, but recommended for most examples. It should not be longer than one or two lines. The description shows up at the top of the example in the example page, and in search results.
After the JS Doc comment, you can write the code. Code can be prefixed with a comment that describes the code. The comment will be rendered next to the code in the example page.
Special thanks for historical contributionsThis repository was created using content from the Deno Manual, a project contributed to by hundreds of developers since 2018. You can view a list of historical contributors to the Deno documentation in this repository and the manual with this command:
The docs.deno.com
site is updated with every push to the main
branch, which should be done via pull request to this repository.
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