Kadena’s Community-Powered Developer Documentation
Kadena
February 11, 2022
Entering 2022, the Kadena ecosystem is going into overdrive, so it’s critical that our developer documentation keep up. We’re thrilled to announce a major refresh of the Kadena developer documentation hub to supercharge builder’s access to information. What’s more, the docs are now fully community-powered, open- and crowd-sourced, tapping the incredible resources in our community to keep everything up-to-date and accurate. Read on to learn how you can get involved and move our ecosystem forward!
How to Contribute to Kadena Docs
There are 3 ways to contribute to the Docs depending on where you are starting from.
- From the Docs
- From GitHub
- From a Local Environment.
This article goes over each of these options to help you suggest changes to the Kadena Docs.
Before Getting Started
GitHub
Create a GitHub account here and read their documentation if you have trouble getting started.
Markdown
Learn about Markdown to better understand the syntax for editing documentation.
Docusaurus
Read the Docusaurus Docs to get familiar with the tool used to publish the Kadena Documentation.
Edit from the Docs
At the bottom of any page of the Kadena Documentation, you’ll see a link titled Edit this page.
Selecting this link takes you to the kadena-community/docs editor window for this page within GitHub.
Make adjustments as needed and preview your changes using the Preview tab.
Select the Show diff checkbox to view the changes inline.
To propose your changes, scroll to the bottom of the page, add notes about your changes, and select the radio button option to Create a new branch. Name your branch and select propose changes.
You have now proposed edits to the repo from the documentation. The Kadena team will review your request and merge your changes as soon as possible. View your pull request at any time to see any comments, questions, or suggestions throughout the duration of your pull request.
Edit from the GitHub Repo
Navigate to the Kadena Community GitHub and navigate to the Docs Repo.
Using the folder structure, navigate to the page you would like to edit. For example, docs/basics/overview.md. The location of this file corresponds to the URL found from within the documentation site.
Select the edit icon on the right side of the screen to begin editing the document.
Make adjustments as needed and preview your changes using the Preview tab.
Select the Show diff checkbox to view the changes inline.
To propose your changes, scroll to the bottom of the page, add notes about your changes, and select the radio button option to Create a new branch. Name your branch and select propose changes.
You have now proposed edits to the repo from GitHub. The Kadena team will review your request and merge your changes as soon as possible. View your pull request at any time to see any comments, questions, or suggestions throughout the duration of your pull request.
Edit from a Local Environment
Navigate to kadena-community/docs and select Fork on the top right of your screen.
Select your profile to create a fork of this repo on your personal GitHub account.
Navigate to your docs repo fork and copy the URL from the code dropdown.
Open your terminal, navigate to your preferred folder, and clone the repository.
Example
git clone https://github.com/kadena-community/docs.git
Change into the docs/ directory
cd docs
Run yarn to install the project dependencies.
yarn
Run yarn dev to run the local server.
yarn dev
Navigate to localhost:3000 to view the documentation on local device.
Open the docs folder in your favorite code editor to make changes to the documentation (example: docs > basics > what-is-kda.md). Use markdown to edit the page and save the file to view your changes.
When you are done editing, check the status of your changes from your terminal window.
git status
Use git add to add stage your changes to commit to your local repository.
git add .
Use git commit to commit your changes to your local repository.
git commit -m ‘how to edit docs’
Use git push to push your changes to your remote repository.
git push origin master
Select Contribute > Open pull request from within your remote repository.
You have now created a pull request to the repo from a local environment. The Kadena team will review your request and merge your changes as soon as possible. View your pull request at any time to see any comments, questions, or suggestions throughout the duration of your pull request.