Organizing Documentation

[kevmodrome]

Needs to get documented:

Functionality:

• Plugins
• bundling

Helpers:

• $redirect()
• $afterPageLoad() (afterPageLoad is undocumented #122)
• $meta()
• $precache()
• $prefetch()
• $metatags()
• scroll-lock Stop Scroll reset in nested routes routify#86 (comment)
  Needs expanding:
• Query strings
• Deployment (Now and Netlify)
• Structure section on docs page (explain _reset, _fallback, _layout)

Examples:

• Link to example app. Examples aren't linked from docs routify#219

• Migrating from other templates

  • Standard svelte-template (Doc addition: Migrating from other templates #132)
  • Sapper (Doc addition: Migrating from other templates #132)

Other:

• Troubleshooting Page
• Improve introduction/structure
• Rephrase prerendering as static export or similar

[jakobrosenberg]

I added bundling to the list

In a project with dynamic imports, setting /admin/_layout.svelte to be bundled would create an admin.js bundle.

If you then also set /admin/crud to be bundled, the content of this folder would then have it's own bundle, called admin_crud.js

[Wolfr]

$afterPageLoad is worked on in #122 .

[Wolfr]

@kevmodrome Not sure why you think _layout and _reset needs expanding. The docs are here: https://routify.dev/guide/introduction/structure . Isn't this already covered?

[Wolfr]

I wrote a guide on how to migrate from svelte-template in #132 .

[jakobrosenberg]

Should we make a clear distinction between migrating to the starter template and migrating to Routify? Some people just want the routes, so for them it's just a matter of npm installing Routify, running Routify and adding it to App.svelte. (I know we have install instructions, but they seem to be lost on some people. Maybe they could use some clarification.)

[Wolfr]

I guess at some level what we already have in the docs can be combined with #132 into a section "How to add Routify to your project".

[kevmodrome]

@kevmodrome Not sure why you think _layout and _reset needs expanding. The docs are here: https://routify.dev/guide/introduction/structure . Isn't this already covered?

Expanding might be the wrong word. I think that you should be able to go to the Docs and see all features even if they are in the Guide section. Sometime a user might come and just want to see how _layout works without having to hunt around in the guide where it might not even exist (in the eyes of the user)

[jakobrosenberg]

Added Rephrase prerendering as static export or similar

[Wolfr]

Two points we have to document:

• $redirect() functions the same as $goto(), but uses replacestate instead of pushstate (the original page doesn't get added to browser history)
• You can change the directory Routify uses for its files with a flag: routify --routify-dir routify-files. This is useful when using Electron.

[jakobrosenberg]

Structure section on docs page (explain _reset, _fallback, _layout)

How should we handle this one?

It's already in the guide, so we have to consider the pitfalls of duplicate information

• it can be confusing, since either the information on page A and B are identical or they're not and you don't know which page you should be reading.
• it can cause inconsistencies in documentation
• it can increase navigation clutter

[Wolfr]

• I removed FunctionDoc styling Recursive bullet list in FunctionDoc #140 from the OP as it is a design issue, not a documentation issue
• I marked "Troubleshooting" section as done since we now have a FAQ page that could serve for this