Docusaurus provides support for writing pages as React components inside the website/pages directory which will share the same header, footer, and styles as the rest of the site.

Provided Props

Docusaurus provides your siteConfig.js as a config props. Hence, you can access baseUrl or title through this props.

Example

const React = require('react');
class MyPage extends React.Component {
  render() {
    const siteConfig = this.props.config;
    return <div>{siteConfig.title}</div>;
  }
}
module.exports = MyPage;

URLs for Pages

Any .js files in website/pages will be rendered to static HTML using the path of the file after pages. Files in website/pages/en will also get copied out into pages and will OVERRIDE any files of the same name in pages. For example, the page for the website/pages/en/help.js file will be found at the URL ${baseUrl}en/help.js as well as the URL ${baseUrl}help.js, where ${baseUrl} is the baseUrl fieldset in your siteConfig.js file.

Titles for Pages

By default, the title of your page is <title> • <tagline> where title and tagline fields are set in siteConfig.js. You can exclude the tagline in the title by setting disableTitleTagline to true. If you want to set a specific title for your custom pages, add a title class property on your exported React component.

Example:

const React = require('react');
class MyPage extends React.Component {
  render() {
    // ... your rendering code
  }
}
MyPage.title = 'My Custom Title';
module.exports = MyPage;

Description for Pages

By default, the description your page is tagline set in siteConfig.js. If you want to set a specific description for your custom pages, add a description class property on your exported React component.

Example:

const React = require('react');
class MyPage extends React.Component {
  render() {
    // ... your rendering code
  }
}
MyPage.description = 'My Custom Description';
module.exports = MyPage;

This will be translated to a description metadata tag on the generated HTML.

<meta property="og:description" content="My Custom Description" />
<meta name="description" content="My Custom Description" />

Page Require Paths

Docusaurus provides a few useful React components for users to write their own pages, found in the CompLibrary module. This module is provided as part of Docusaurus in node_modules/docusaurus, so to access it, pages in the pages directory are temporarily copied into node_modules/docusaurus when rendering to static HTML. As seen in the example files, this means that a user page at pages/en/index.js uses a require path to '../../core/CompLibrary.js' to import the provided components.

What this means to the user is that if you wish to use the CompLibrary module, make sure the require path is set correctly. For example, a page at page/mypage.js would use a path '../core/CompLibrary.js'.

If you wish to use your own components inside the website directory, use process.cwd() which will refer to the website directory to construct require paths. For example, if you add a component to website/core/mycomponent.js, you can use the require path, 'process.cwd() + /core/mycomponent.js'.

Provided Components

Docusaurus provides the following components in CompLibrary:

CompLibrary.MarkdownBlock

A React component that parses markdown and renders to HTML.

Example:

const MarkdownBlock = CompLibrary.MarkdownBlock;
<MarkdownBlock>
  [Markdown syntax for a link](http://www.example.com)
</MarkdownBlock>;

CompLibrary.Container

A React container component using Docusaurus styles. Has optional padding and background color props that you can configure.

Props

Example

<Container
  padding={['bottom', 'top']}
  background="light"
  className="myCustomClass">
  ...
</Container>

CompLibrary.GridBlock

A React component to organize text and images.

Props

Content Object

Example

<GridBlock
  align="center"
  layout="threeColumn"
  className="myCustomClass"
  contents={[
    {
      title: `[Learn](${siteConfig.baseUrl}${siteConfig.docsUrl}/tutorial.html)`,
      content: 'Learn how to use this project',
      image: siteConfig.baseUrl + 'img/learn.png',
      imageAlt: 'Learn how to use this project',
      imageLink: siteConfig.baseUrl + 'docs/tutorial.html',
    },
    {
      title: 'Frequently Asked Questions',
      content: 'Questions gathered from the community',
      image: siteConfig.baseUrl + 'img/faq.png',
      imageAlign: 'top',
    },
    {
      title: 'More',
      content: 'Lots of documentation is on this site',
    },
  ]}
/>

More examples of how these components are used can be found in the generated example files as well as in Docusaurus’ own repository for its website set-up.

Translating Strings

When translations are enabled, any pages inside website/pages/en will be translated for all enabled languages. URLs for non-English pages will use their language tags as specified in the languages.js file. E.g. The URL for a French page of website/pages/en/help.js would be found at ${baseUrl}fr/help.html.

When writing pages that you wish to translate, wrap any strings to be translated inside a <translate> tag. e.g.,

<p>
  <translate>I like translations</translate>
</p>

You can also provide an optional description attribute to provide context for translators. e.g,

<a href="/community">
  <translate desc="Footer link to page referring to community GitHub and Slack">
    Community
  </translate>
</a>

Add the following require statement as well:

const translate = require('../../server/translate.js').translate;

Note that this path is valid for files inside pages/en and should be adjusted accordingly if files are in different locations, as discussed above.

Using Static Assets

Static assets should be placed into the website/static directory. They can be accessed by their paths, excluding static. For example, if the site’s baseUrl is /docusaurus/, an image in website/static/img/logo.png is available at /docusaurus/img/logo.png.

You should configure your site’s primary, secondary, and code block colors using the colors field in siteConfig as specified here. You can also configure other colors in the same way as described in the siteConfig doc.

There are several ways to access the default styles provided for your site. If you have started developing your website and executed the docusaurus-init or yarn install command, your default styles can be found at website/node_modules/docusaurus/lib/static/css/main.css. Alternatively, the main.css file may be inspected directly at the Docusaurus GitHub repository.

You can provide your own custom styles by adding them anywhere in the website/static directory. Any .css files you provide in the static directory will get concatenated to the end of Docusaurus’ provided styles, allowing you to add to or override Docusaurus default styles as you wish.

One way to figure out what classes you wish to override or add to is to start your server locally and use your browser’s inspect element tool.