Oasis Docs

This repository contains Oasis Docs deployed at https://docs.oasis.io/.

They are built using Docusaurus 2, a modern static website generator.

Installation

Install Node packages with:

yarn

Checkout all Git submodules with:

git submodule update --init

Local Development

To start the local development server, use:

yarn start

This command will start a local development server. Open your browser at http://localhost:3000/ to load the site.

Most changes will be reflected live without having to restart the server.

Build

To generate the static site, use:

yarn build

This will generate the static content in the build directory. Its contents can be served using any static content hosting service.

Deployment

Docs will be automatically re-generated and re-deployed once a pull request is merged into the main branch.

Broken Link Checker

Docusaurus already checks all internal links when running yarn build.

To also check all external links using a local Oasis Docs instance, do the following:

1. Specify URL env variable and generate the static site:

   URL=http://localhost:3000/ yarn build
   

2. Serve the static site locally:

   yarn serve --no-open
   

3. Run broken link checker in a new terminal with:

   yarn blc
   

NOTE: Some external URLs appear to be receiving wrong 200-ish HTTP code despite opening correctly in the browser. Exclude those links manually from the broken link checker in package.json.

Guidelines for writing Oasis docs

Documentation structure

docs folder contains markdown files of the documentation. Each subfolder represents one of the top-level chapter (general, node, dApp, paratime, core etc.).

Some top-level chapter may contain markdown files or folders hosted and maintained in other Oasis repositories (e.g. oasis-sdk, oasis-core). In this case, a complete git submodule for the repository is cloned inside external folder. Then, symbolic links to specific markdown files or folders are added inside docs accordingly.

While all markdown files inside docs are compiled, not all files may be reachable via sidebars directly. Each top-level chapter defines own sidebar structure inside their sidebarChapterName.js file.

Nouns, adjectives and verbs in section titles should be capitalized.

index.md, README.md, overview.md

Please use README.md as the filename for introductory chapters.

Introductory chapters should not have a separate entry in the sidebar, but should be accessible by clicking on the category link directly.

Referencing documents between the top-level chapters

Markdown files hosted by this repository should:

• reference markdown files in the same or any other chapter by a relative path e.g. ../howto-use-wallet.md. ../../../operators/set-up-your-node.md

Markdown files hosted by other Oasis repositories should:

• reference markdown files in the same repository by a relative path e.g. ../howto-write-contract.md.
• reference markdown files in other repositories by using github.com URL e.g. https://github.com/oasisprotocol/docs/blob/main/docs/general/mainnet/damask-upgrade.md

This way, the documentation of each external repository is self-contained and no broken links should exist. When the submodules are wrapped inside the Oasis docs and compiled, the github.com URLs will be rewritten into the corresponding documentation links by the markdown preprocessor (remark plugin).

DocCards

DocCards are attractive elements commonly used in the introductory chapters and See also or Read more sections. Apart from the built-in docusaurus <DocCardList /> helper which prints all items in the category, you can also list specific items by calling our findSidebarItem() helper passing the href of the target page.

DocCardList will show two DocCards per row while the DocCard component will span horizontally over the whole site resembling page links in gitbook.

Please fill the description: frontmanner for chapters which are referenced in the DocCards.

Code snippets from files

You can make code blocks show a code stored in external files, by using the code literal as the first word inside the image alt field. For example:

![code](../../examples/somefile.go)

code-block-snippets remark plugin will replace the image syntax above with the code block syntax and import the referenced file.

Additionally, you can specify the language, code title and lines of code or the region name:

![code go](../../examples/somefile.go "Some external file")
![code go](../../examples/somefile.go#L14 "Line 14 in the file")
![code go](../../examples/somefile.go#L14-L16 "Lines 14-16 in the file")
![code go](../../examples/somefile.go#some-region "Some external file region")

To define the region in the referenced file put #region some-region-name and #endregion some-region-name as a comment line.

Backward compatibility

When you move, rename or delete previously published content, make sure that any previously valid URL will always point to the new valid location. Set up redirects in redirects.js accordingly and leave the pull request number in the comment which added this redirection for future reference, if major rewrite is to happen and the developers would need more context around the redirection.

Diagrams

There are three kinds of image assets currently used in the docs.

1. Screenshots, photos, non-technical figures go into images/ folder of the respected top-level chapter.
2. Mermaid diagrams (preferred tool for sequence diagrams, flowcharts and other technical material) live in diagrams/ folder of the respected top-level chapter. Diagram sources reside in the .mmd files. To generate .svg which can be used in the markdown run yarn diagrams. Both .svg and .mmd files should be stored in git. CI will check that they are always in sync.
3. Other diagrams which cannot be designed with Mermaid are drawn in diagrams.net and then stored locally inside images/ folder along other images. When exporting the diagram, don't forget to tick the "Include a copy of my diagram" checkbox so that the diagram source will be stored along in the .svg file so you will be able to edit it in the future.

Vocabulary

The following is a consistent case-sensitive collection of Oasis-related terms and their usage:

• c10l Check out the c10l-hello-world folder for the confidential version of the original example.
• c13y EVM with added c13y.
• Cipher
• consensus layer The consensus layer makes sure that the ParaTimes tick.
• Emerald
• dApp Emerald supports writing dApps. DApp is a modern distributed application.
• key manager
• key manager node
• Mainnet
• Testnet
• Oasis Core
• ParaTime Each ParaTime stores its own state separate from the consensus state.
• ParaTime layer The ParaTime layer supports up to a thousand runtimes running in parallel.
• ROSE Please send 10.00000000 ROSE to the address above.
• runtime
• Sapphire
• TEST Please send 10.00000000 TEST to the address above.
• validator
• validator node
• Web3 gateway We strongly suggest that you set up your own Web3 gateway for your Sapphire endpoint.