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Contribution Guidelines

The documentation source files are written in Markdown and generally follow the Google developer documentation style guide.

Please review the guidelines mentioned throughout this document, and when ready, you can open a PR against the master branch. Typically from there, someone from the Moonbeam Developer Relations team will review the PR and request any changes as needed. Then the team will merge your PR into a local branch and make sure that all of the formatting changes look good on the local site. Once everything is all set and done the changes will be published to the live site.

Thank you for your contributions, they are greatly appreciated 💜.

Previewing Changes in VS Code

Unfortunately, there is not currrently a way to review the changes locally. However, if you're using Visual Studio Code, you can preview the changes you're making to .md files before committing them. To learn how, please check out the Markdown and Visual Studio Code guide from the Visual Studio docs site.

Structure

In the root directory and every subdirectory, in addition to the content directories and pages, you'll find the following files:

  • .pages - defines the structure of the documentation site
  • index.md- represents the landing pages you see throughout the docs site

Example .pages file

Below is an example of the Canonical Contracts .pages file:

title: Canonical Contracts
nav:
  - index.md
  - 'Contract Addresses': 'contracts.md'
  - precompiles

Some important things to note:

  • The title field at the top of the page represents the display name for the subdirectory
  • The index.md page should always be the first item in the list
  • Files follow the convention of 'Display Name': 'file-name.md'
  • Subdirectories are listed by their directory name in the source code

Both, Canonical Contracts and Contract Addresses are displayed in the left side navigation menu and on the landing page. The Precompiled Contracts title, comes from the title of the .pages file for the precompiles subdirectory.

Display titles

Example index.md file

Below is an example of the Canonical Contracts index.md file:

---
title: Canonical & Precompiled Contracts
description: Here you can find canonical contract addresses for Moonbeam, and precompiled contracts for interacting with Substrate features using the Ethereum API.
template: main.html
---

<div class='subsection-wrapper'></div>

Some important things to note:

  • The title represents the <title> tag and is used for SEO purposes
  • The description represents the meta-description and is also used for SEO purposes
  • The template defines the template to be used. It should always be main.html
  • The <div> is populated with links to any pages or subdirectories and is populated automatically by a script at runtime that builds the landing pages

The Canonical Contracts landing page is rendered and retrieves the titles from the .pages files.

Landing page

Content Pages

When adding a new content page, you should have the following components:

  • title - represents the <title> tag and is used for SEO purposes (not displayed on the published site)
  • description - represents the meta-description and is also used for SEO purposes (not displayed on the published site)
  • Page title - a title to be displayed at the top of the page
  • ## Introduction section - 2-3 paragraphs to serve as an introduction. This should be long-lived, meaning it will not require changes in the future

Optionally, you should also consider including the following sections:

  • ## Checking Prerequisites section - if the guide requires the user to have certain developer tools installed, for example Docker or MetaMask, it should be listed here
  • ## Getting Started section - if this is a 3rd party integration, having links that point to the most important parts of your project's documentation site that helps users to get started with your project

For example:

---
title: Title for SEO purposes
description: Description for SEO purposes.
---

# Page Title

![Banner Image](/images/<subdirectory>/<project>-banner.png)

## Introduction

Write 2-3 paragraphs to serve as the introduction here.

...

Images

Images are stored in the images subdirectory. They are organized to mirror the structure of the docs site. So, for example, if you are creating a new page for the builders section and need to add images, those would go under the images/builders/ subdirectory.

All pages should have a banner image, you can use the _banner-template.svg found in the root of the images directory to create your own.

All landing pages require a logo or relevant icon. You can use the _index-page-template.svg that is in the root of the images subdirectory to create your own that is the correct size. These images are stored in the images/index-pages subdirectory.

Ultimately, images displayed on the website should be in .png format.

To add an image to your page, you should have alt text and use the following syntax:

![Alt text goes here](/images/<subdirectory>/<image-file-name>.png)

Snippets

Snippets can be used to manage reusable lines of code or text. There is a subdirectory for text and code. The text snippets will get translated for the Chinese version of the documentation site. On the other hand, the code snippets should only contain code and therefore do not get translated.

To link to a snippet, you can use the following syntax in the Markdown file:

--8<-- 'code/<subdirectory>/<snippet-file-name>.md'

Code snippets can be written in Markdown or the programming language itself, for example, .py for Python, .js for JavaScript, etc.

Search Enging Optimization (SEO)

Here are some resources to help you create good titles and descriptions for SEO:

In general, titles should be between 50 and 60 characters and descriptions should be between 110 and 160 characters.