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Add the ability to embed code samples from GitHub into tutorials, so we can have a single source of truth for the source code. Introduces the <$CodeSample /> syntax, which is a special syntax and not a real React component (see the directives/README.md for why on earth I did it this way -- in this specific case, CodeHike adjusts the MDX syntax tree before it gets compiled, and we need to adjust it ourselves before CodeHike sees it, so we need to get down to the level of manipulating the AST in order to make this work with CodeHike). Adjusted one of the example tutorials to use this new feature as a test.
Reference Docs
Supabase Reference Docs
Maintainers
If you are a maintainer of any tools in the Supabase ecosystem, you can use this site to provide documentation for the tools & libraries that you maintain.
Versioning
All tools have versioned docs, which are kept in separate folders. For example, the CLI has the following folders and files:
cli: the "next" release.cli_spec: contains the DocSpec for the "next" release (see below).cli_versioned_docs: a version of the documentation for every release (including the most current version).cli_versioned_sidebars: a version of the sidebar for every release (including the most current version).
When you release a new version of a tool, you should also release a new version of the docs. You can do this via the command line. For example, if you just released the CLI version 1.0.1:
npm run cli:version 1.0.1
DocSpec
We use documentation specifications which can be used to generate human-readable docs.
- OpenAPI: for documenting API endpoints.
- SDKSpec (custom to Supabase): for SDKs and client libraries.
- ConfigSpec (custom to Supabase): for configuration options.
- CLISpec (custom to Supabase): for CLI commands and usage.
The benefit of using custom specifications is that we can generate many other types from a strict schema (eg, HTML and manpages). It also means that we can switch to any documentation system we want. On this site we use Next.JS, but on Supabase's official website, we use a custom React site and expose only a subset of the available API for each tool.
Contributing
To contribute to docs, see the developers' guide and contributing guide.