Help Center documentation

This is the repository for Solus's Help Center documentation. You can help us improve the Solus experience by:

• Contributing documentation on new topics.
• Editing existing documentation for formatting, spelling and punctuation, and conformance with our style guide.
• Working on fixes for existing issues.
• Identifying and reporting new issues.

Getting started

To get started developing our Docusaurus instance, or writing documentation, first fork this project so you can submit pull requests for your changes.

This project is written using TypeScript and React, with content written in Markdown or MDX. To facilitate development, we use nvm and yarn.

Please lint and spellcheck your contributions before creating a pull request. We recommend VS Code with the "prettier" extension for linting, and Code Spell Checker (cspell) for spelling.

Content formatting and spelling

• Writing style should follow our style guide
• This project includes prettier for markdown and code formatting
  • Command: yarn prettier
• This project includes Cspell for spell-checking, and has a custom wordlist .cspell-allowed-wordlist.txt
  • Command: yarn cspell
  • Note that we use American spelling
  • If you use vscode with the Code Spell Checker extension, the custom dictionary will be used
  • You can tidy the allowed-wordlist with go-task tidy-words

NVM

To set up nvm, the Node Version Manager, follow the instructions listed here. We recommend setting up their shell integration as well, so you can automatically switch to the correct Node version when working on this project. Otherwise, ensure you run nvm use. This project requires the "current" supported release series of Node.

You can validate you are using the latest by running node --version. Your version should be at least 19.x.

Yarn

This project makes use of Yarn for its package management. After setting up nvm and ensuring you are running the latest Node, run:

corepack enable

Installing dependencies

To install the required dependencies, run: yarn

Starting Docusaurus

To start the live reloading Docusaurus, run: yarn start

Other useful commands

• Clear local build cache: yarn clear
• Linting: yarn lint
• Updating translation files: yarn write-translations
• Validate build: yarn build
• Run validated build: yarn serve

Publishing to https://help.getsol.us (via GH Pages)

Ensure that you can successfully generate a static site as above.

Then, when you're ready to deploy, run the following:

go-task deploy

This obviously assumes that you have ssh push access to the help-center-docs repository and are using remote.origin.url=git@github.com:getsolus/help-center-docs.git (as listed by git config -l).

Contributing

Multi-lingual documents

Note that multi-lingual documents are not yet supported on our Help Center. When it does, we'll be happy to accept non-English language documents.

Licenses

Build system

Files relating to the parsing / build system are licensed under GPL-2.0. For the full text, view LICENSE.txt.

Markdown

The Markdown files in this repository are licensed under the Creative Commons By-NC-SA 4.0 License. For the full text, view LICENSE-MD.txt. Solus Project is considered the sole rights holder of these works.

Media assets

• Solus logo copyright and licensing information is provided on our Brand Guidelines page.
• Non-logo assets are licensed under Creative Commons By-NC-SA 4.0 License. For the full text, view LICENSE-MD.txt. Solus Project is considered the sole rights holder of these works.