This is the repository for the official documentation of NEAR Protocol, a user-friendly and carbon-neutral blockchain, built from the ground up to be performant, secure, and infinitely scalable.
Check out the following links
- Deployed, live documentation: https://docs.near.org
- Example applications: https://github.com/near-examples
- Community chat: https://near.chat
NEAR uses Docusaurus for documentation. Please refer to their documentation for details on major structural contributions to the documentation.
For simple content changes you have 2 options
- Submit an issue
- Submit a pull request (we prefer PRs of course)
This is the fastest way to submit content changes directly from the page where you notice a mistake.
- Open any page in the docs on https://docs.near.org
- Click the
[ Edit ]
button at the top right hand side of every content page - Make your edits to the document that opens in GitHub by clicking the ✎ (pencil) icon
- Submit a PR with your changes and comments for context
This is the standard fork-branch-commit workflow for submitting pull requests to open source repositories
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Fork this repo to your own GitHub account (or just clone it directly if you are currently a member of NEAR)
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Open your editor to the top level repo folder to view the directory structure as seen below
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Move into the
/website
folder where you will run the following commands:-
Make sure all the dependencies for the website are installed:
# Install dependencies yarn
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Run the local docs development server
# Start the site yarn start
Expected Output
# Website with live reload is started LiveReload server started on port 35729 Docusaurus server started on port 3000
The website for docs will open your browser locally to port
3000
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Make changes to the docs
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Observe those changes reflected in the local docs
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Submit a pull request with your changes - Please check for broken links before opening PR 🙏
Your project file structure should look something like this with a few key files and folders highlighted
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── LICENSE-APACHE.txt
├── LICENSE-MIT.txt
├── README.md <-- the document you are reading right now
├── docs <-- all the content for the site is in this folder as markdown files
└── website
├── build
├── core
├── i18n
├── package.json
├── pages
├── sidebars.js <-- rarely used for changing left-hand-side page navigation
├── docusaurus.config.js <-- rarely used for general site configuration (including header links)
├── static
└── test-links.sh <-- always used to test links before submitting changes
For broken links internal to the docs, please submit an issue or PR request as per above.
If you found a broken link from a Google search, please request to remove it from their index here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals
Before opening a pull request, please check for broken links by navigating to ./website
directory and run:
yarn full-test