AEP Site Generator

Overview

The AEP Site Generator takes in all of our documentation from multiple repositories and generates the AEP website.

The site generator is made of multiple parts:

• A CI workflow
• A generator script that reads the various repos + converts their documentation to formats supported by Starlight
• A (very standard) Starlight website.

Generator

The generator script reads documentation from all of the repos and writes files for Starlight to read.

At a high level, the generator script writes out Markdown / MDX (Markdown with React added) files to src/content/docs for Starlight to read. It also generates various JSON files in generated/ to build the sidebar and other config.

🚀 Starlight Project Structure

.
├── public/
├── scripts/
│   ├── generate.ts
├── src/
│   ├── assets/
│   ├── content/
│   │   ├── docs/
│   │   └── config.ts
│   └── env.d.ts
├── astro.config.mjs
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json

Starlight looks for .md or .mdx files in the src/content/docs/ directory. Each file is exposed as a route based on its file name.

Images can be added to src/assets/ and embedded in Markdown with a relative link.

Static assets, like favicons, can be placed in the public/ directory.

🧞 Commands

All commands are run from the root of the project, from a terminal:

Command	Action
npm install	Installs dependencies
npm run dev	Starts local dev server at localhost:4321
npm run build	Build your production site to ./dist/
npm run preview	Preview your build locally, before deploying
npm run astro ...	Run CLI commands like astro add, astro check
npm run astro -- --help	Get help using the Astro CLI