Docs Introduction

The docs feature provides users with a way to organize Markdown files in a hierarchical format.

info

Check the Docs Plugin API Reference documentation for an exhaustive list of options.

Your site's documentation is organized by four levels, from lowest to highest:

1. Individual pages.
2. Sidebars.
3. Versions.
4. Plugin instances.

The guide will introduce them in that order: starting from how individual pages can be configured, to how to create a sidebar or multiple ones, to how to create and manage versions, to how to use multiple docs plugin instances.

Docs-only mode

A freshly initialized Docusaurus site has the following structure:

example.com/                                -> generated from `src/pages/index.js`

example.com/docs/intro                      -> generated from `docs/intro.md`
example.com/docs/tutorial-basics/...        -> generated from `docs/tutorial-basics/...`
...

example.com/blog/2021/08/26/welcome         -> generated from `blog/2021-08-26-welcome/index.md`
example.com/blog/2021/08/01/mdx-blog-post   -> generated from `blog/2021-08-01-mdx-blog-post.mdx`
...

All docs will be served under the subroute docs/. But what if your site only has docs, or you want to prioritize your docs by putting them at the root?

Assume that you have the following in your configuration:

docusaurus.config.js

export default {
  // ...
  presets: [
    [
      '@docusaurus/preset-classic',
      {
        docs: {
          /* docs plugin options */
        },
        blog: {
          /* blog plugin options */
        },
        // ...
      },
    ],
  ],
};

To enter docs-only mode, change it to like this:

docusaurus.config.js

export default {
  // ...
  presets: [
    [
      '@docusaurus/preset-classic',
      {
        docs: {
          routeBasePath: '/', // Serve the docs at the site's root
          /* other docs plugin options */
        },
        blog: false, // Optional: disable the blog plugin
        // ...
      },
    ],
  ],
};

Note that you don't necessarily have to give up on using the blog or other plugins; all that routeBasePath: '/' does is that instead of serving the docs through https://example.com/docs/some-doc, they are now at the site root: https://example.com/some-doc. The blog, if enabled, can still be accessed through the blog/ subroute.

Don't forget to put some page at the root (https://example.com/) through adding the front matter:

docs/intro.md

---
slug: /
---

This page will be the home page when users visit https://example.com/.

warning

If you added slug: / to a doc to make it the homepage, you should delete the existing homepage at ./src/pages/index.js, or else there will be two files mapping to the same route!

Now, the site's structure will be like the following:

example.com/                       -> generated from `docs/intro.md`
example.com/tutorial-basics/...    -> generated from `docs/tutorial-basics/...`
...

tip

There's also a "blog-only mode" for those who only want to use the blog feature of Docusaurus. You can use the same method detailed above. Follow the setup instructions on Blog-only mode.