Welcome to the official home repository for Documentation and API Reference for the Stellar Network.
Contributions are more than welcome! Thank you! 🎉
Before diving in, please read our Stellar Contribution Guide for details on contributing to Stellar's various repositories. Please take special note of the code of conduct.
Our documentation site is built using Docusaurus. The content is written in MDX, which adds a lot of cool possibilities. Even if you're unfamiliar with plain markdown, do not fear! You can still contribute in a helpful and meaningful way. Markdown is super easy to learn, and will come quite naturally after only a bit of practice. You can always help fix typos, spelling, and broken links, too.
To begin development on the documentation, you will first need yarn installed on your system. Once it is, you can run the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/stellar/stellar-docs
cd stellar-docs
yarn install
npx docusaurus startThis will begin the development server, and open a browser window/tab pointing
to http://localhost:3000/docs/. This development server will auto-reload when
it detects changes to the repository.
After you've made your changes, please use prettier to ensure consistent
formatting throughout the repository:
npm run check:mdx # this will search for problems in the MDX files
npm run format:mdx # this will fix any problems that were found/docs/Contains all the documentation content. If you're contributing to the actual documentation, rather than site functionality, this is likely where you will want to be./docs/<subdirectory>/Each subdirectory inside thedocsdirectory contains content documents relating to a common idea (asset issuance, or running a validator node, for example). There can also be subdirectories nested even further, which will follow the same rules. The location of a document within this directory structure will have a direct impact on the URL given to the document on the site (unless there is metadata or front matter that overrides these defaults.)/docs/<subdirectory>/_category_.jsonThis file contains information that determines the directory's location and position within the site's sidebar./docs/<subdirectory>/<filename>.mdxThe actual documents live in these files (written in Markdown), and also contains "front matter" which can specify configuration parameter for the document's display, URL, etc. All filenames must use dashes for spaces instead of spaces or underscores
/src/Contains non-documentation files like custom React components and styling./static/Contains static assets. Anything in this directory will be copied to the root of the finalbuilddirectory./nginx/Contains configuration used to deploy and host the docs site. Unless you're part of Stellar's IT Ops team, you probably don't need to do anything with this. Exception:/nginx/includes/redirects.confContains redirect rules to avoid broken links. If you find a broken link somewhere out in the wilds of the internet, and there's no way for it to be changed, a redirect could be a useful tool. (Note our aim isn't to completely avoid 404 pages for a user. That would be impossible and impractical. These redirects are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and it may be determined that a redirect isn't the right approach in some instances.)
If you're unfamiliar with Markdown, there are loads of good tutorials and cheat sheets out there. Check out some of these resources to get a handle on the basics:
Our repository uses some custom React components that can be used inside the
MDX documents. Use them as follows:
Make sure that there is an empty line within the wrapper. For example,
<Alert>
<!-- EMPTY LINE AFTER THE COMPONENT'S OPENING TAG IS REQUIRED -->
Note: the testnet is reset every three months, so when building on it, make sure you have a plan to recreate necessary accounts and other data. For more info, check out the [best practices for using the testnet](../../learn/fundamentals/networks.mdx).
<!-- EMPTY LINE BEFORE THE COMPONENT'S CLOSING TAG IS REQUIRED -->
</Alert>
<Alert /> is used to convey hints, warnings, etc. For example,
Build a SEP-31 Anchor on Testnet
import { Alert } from "@site/src/components/Alert";
<Alert>
Note: the testnet is reset every three months, so when building on it, make sure you have a plan to recreate necessary accounts and other data. For more info, check out the [best practices for using the testnet](../../fundamentals-and-concepts/testnet-and-pubnet).
</Alert>
<CodeExample /> is a code snippet component. You can include snippets for more
than one language. See an example including a snippet for JavaScript and
Python below. It is using Prism React Renderer for syntax
highlighting.
import { CodeExample } from "@site/src/components/CodeExample";
<CodeExample>
```js
// create a completely new and unique pair of keys
// see more about KeyPair objects: https://stellar.github.io/js-stellar-sdk/Keypair.html
const pair = StellarSdk.Keypair.random();
pair.secret();
// SAV76USXIJOBMEQXPANUOQM6F5LIOTLPDIDVRJBFFE2MDJXG24TAPUU7
pair.publicKey();
// GCFXHS4GXL6BVUCXBWXGTITROWLVYXQKQLF4YH5O5JT3YZXCYPAFBJZB
```
```python
# stellar-sdk >= 2.0.0 required
# create a completely new and unique pair of keys
# see more about KeyPair objects: https://stellar-sdk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#keypair
from stellar_sdk import Keypair
pair = Keypair.random()
print(f"Secret: {pair.secret}")
# Secret: SCMDRX7A7OVRPAGXLUVRNIYTWBLCS54OV7UH2TF5URSG4B4JQMUADCYU
print(f"Public Key: {pair.public_key}")
# Public Key: GAG7SXULMNWCW6LX42JKZOZRA2JJXQT23LYY32OXA6XECUQG7RZTQJHO
```
</CodeExample>Languages that are currently being used in Documentation and API Reference are below:
// https://github.com/stellar/stellar-docs/blob/main/src/components/CodeExample.js
const CODE_LANGS = {
bash: 'bash',
cpp: 'C++',
curl: 'cURL',
go: 'Go',
html: 'html',
java: 'Java',
javascript: 'JavaScript',
js: 'JavaScript',
json: 'JSON',
json5: 'JSON5',
python: 'Python',
scss: 'SCSS',
toml: 'TOML',
ts: 'TypeScript',
tsx: 'TSX',
typescript: 'TypeScript',
yaml: 'YAML',
};