express-docs-block
v0.1.3express-docs-block
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An Express (4.0+) middleware to generate a documentation page written in markdown.
Features
- Beautiful and simple doc page
- Menu auto generated in Sidebar
- Highlight code by default
- Shipped with simple CSS theme
- Integrated in your EJS
- Fuzzy search
- Home Page to showcase all articles
It's designed to be extremely simple to use:
- Write doc articles as markdown files
- Add the middleware to the
/docsroutes includethe generated template in yourejs
Usage
Add your pages as markdown files under a /docs folder.
Install the library
npm install express-docs-block
The items array of object contains your documentation menu, with respect to the order.
An item can either be type: 'title' or type: 'doc'. Titles are used to define sections (like "API reference", "Guides", ...)
const docs = require('express-docs-block')({
folder: 'docs/',
items: [{
type: 'title',
name: 'Deployment guides'
}, {
type: 'doc',
id: 'node',
name: 'Node.js'
}, {
type: 'title',
name: 'Options'
}, {
type: 'doc',
name: 'Advanced',
id: 'advanced'
}, {
type: 'doc',
name: 'Custom domain',
id: 'domain'
}]
})
app.get("/docs", docs, (req, res, next) => {
res.render("views/docs")
})
app.get("/docs/:page", docs, (req, res, next) => {
res.render("views/docs")
})
The middleware will pass res.locals.pageHtml variable that contains your documentation page (menu & content with basic CSS) so it's directly accessible in your template.
It's super easy to add in your docs.ejs view:
...
<body>
<h1>A really great doc page</h1>
<%- pageHtml %>
<footer>Copyright...</footer>
</body>
...
