Overview:
The jekyll-rtd-theme is a documentation theme that is compatible with GitHub Pages. It is inspired by the sphinx-rtd-theme and refactored with @primer/css and github-pages dependencies. This theme allows users to generate documentation websites with the same files and folders from rundocs/starter-slim.
Features:
- Shortcodes: Includes various shortcodes such as toasts card and mermaid for enhanced functionality.
- Pages Plugins: Supports plugins like emoji, gist, avatar, and mentions for added features on pages.
- Auto Generate Sidebar: Automatically generates a sidebar for easy navigation through the documentation.
- Attribute List Definitions: Includes attribute list definitions using Primer/css utilities and Font Awesome 4 for styling.
- Service Worker: Enables caching of the website's pages for improved performance.
- SEO: Provides SEO-related functionalities such as handling 404 errors, generating robots.txt and sitemap.xml files.
- Canonical Link: Supports Open Graph, Twitter Card, and Schema data for proper social media sharing and search engine optimization.
- 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.
- Webpack
Webpack is a popular open-source module bundler for JavaScript applications that bundles and optimizes the code and its dependencies for production-ready deployment. It can also be used to transform other types of assets such as CSS, images, and fonts.