Documentation
The source for Datadog's documentation site.
Overview:
The Documentation site for Datadog is a repository that houses markdown files. It utilizes the Hugo static website generation tool to publish the markdown files to the Datadog documentation site. Contributors are encouraged to make edits by opening pull requests in the repository. The documentation site can be accessed locally by following the installation steps.
Features:
- Contribution: Users can open pull requests to suggest edits to the documentation.
- Edit Button: Most pages on the documentation site have an edit button that redirects users to the respective source file in the repository for making edits directly on the GitHub website.
- Local Deployment: The documentation site can be set up locally using various commands.
- Hugo
Hugo is an open-source static site generator that features fast build times, flexible themes, support for multiple content formats, multilingual websites, live reloading, and an active community. It allows developers to easily create and deploy SEO-friendly and mobile-responsive websites.
- Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular CSS Framework for developing responsive and mobile-first websites.
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Alpine.js
Alpine.js is a lightweight JavaScript framework that simplifies the process of creating dynamic, reactive user interfaces on the web. It uses a declarative syntax that offers a higher level of abstraction compared to vanilla JavaScript, while being more performant and easier to use than jQuery.
- Documentation
Documentation themes are built specifically for writing technical and product documentation. They are normally written and maintained in Markdown. The often include a navigation menu, search bar, clear headings, semantic document structure and clean typography.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
