How to update Apostrophe CMS documentation

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This project contains the documentation site for ApostropheCMS.

You don't need to read this page to read the documentation! Read the actual documentation here. This page is about contributing to the documentation.

Building the docs

1. Setup

Clone the repo.

$ git clone https://github.com/apostrophecms/a3-docs.git
$ cd a3-docs

Next, install the dependencies for the main Vuepress documentation build.

npm install

Now you can build the docs with:

npm run dev

For testing, or

npm run build

Before deployment with the deploy script (requires credentials of course).

2. Editing content

See the docs subdirectory for Markdown files.

Images should be added to images/assets and embedded with relative paths, like this:

![](../../../images/assets/user-menu.png)

If you add a new top level page, you will need to edit docs/.vuepress/config.js. If you add a new deeper page, you will need to edit docs/.vuepress/sidebar.json. Otherwise it will not appear in the navigation.

3. Linking to other pages

When creating links in the body of a documentation page that point to another page of documentation, either make sure the link is relative and pointing to the .md extension OR use the file path starting starting after the docs directory. So you would link to docs/devops/email.md with [link text](/devops/email.md).

4. Submit for review

First, make sure you've built and reviewed your documentation locally (npm run dev) and confirmed that your links work properly. Submit your changes as a pull request on the a3-docs repository. Please include as much context for the change as is reasonable in the PR description.

Notes about using the Apostrophe Vuepress theme

This site uses vuepress-theme-apostrophe, which imports stylesheets, components, and plugins (and their configurations). Other modifications, like enhancements to the markdown parser, must be present at project level across all vuepress sites that need them.

Use this space to make other notes particular to the theme's shared resources