Contributing

Submit Your Own Guide

Submitting your own guide is easy. Read this guide in its entirety before submitting a PR though.

Sails.js Documentation Structure

The documentation on the Sails.js website is automatically pulled down from the sails-docs github repo and all of the .md files which contain github flavored markdown are turned in html templates. Every time the sails-docs repo changes, the changes are instantly reflected on the website.

In order for this to work, the sails-docs repo must have a particular structure. It’s easy to follow though.

The Basics

Every folder must contain a .md file with the same (case sensitive) name. A folder called SecuRity must contain SecuRity.md. This file will be loaded when someone clicks the link on the guides navigation menu.

Every .md file must contain two <docmeta> tags. They are required for automatically generating the navigation. Without these tags, the template is ignored.

The uniqueID tag is used by the router on the front-end of the Sails.js website. The value can be anything as it’s unique among all the other .md files. We add some random numbers to it just in case. 

  1. <docmeta name="uniqueID" value="someUniqueName85732">

The value of the displayName tag determines the link text on the navigation menu. This does not need to be unique. 

  1. <docmeta name="displayName" value="Name To Appear On Navigation">
Making a New Section

Lets say you want to create a guide called Socket.io Safety in a new section called Security.

  • First, create the folder sails-docs/userguides/security/
  • Next, create the file sails-docs/userguides/security/security.md
  • Add your introduction/overview of the section to security.md and make sure to include your <docmeta> tags
  • Now, create sails-docs/userguides/security/socketio.md and put the content for your guide in it. Make sure to include <docmeta> tags

If there is already an appropriate section for your guide, skip to the last step.

The Contributed By section.

This section is entirely optional. Feel free to use it to talk a little about yourself.

Example Stub

Feel free to copy and change the file guideStub.md

Contributed By

Nicholas Crumrine

A real West Texas cowboy with an affinity for cats

Link

https://twitter.com/ncrumrine

Organizations

Sails, Balderdash,cluckus