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QuickForms Documentation Setup

✅ Complete VitePress documentation site created!

What's Been Set Up

1. VitePress Installation & Configuration

  • ✅ VitePress and Vue installed as dev dependencies
  • ✅ Beautiful purple-themed configuration with custom branding
  • ✅ Full-text search enabled
  • ✅ Dark mode support
  • ✅ Mobile responsive design
  • ✅ Automatic sidebar navigation

2. Documentation Structure

docs/
├── .vitepress/
│   ├── config.mts          # VitePress configuration
│   └── theme/
│       ├── index.ts        # Theme setup
│       └── custom.css      # Custom purple branding
├── guide/                  # User guides
│   ├── what-is-quickforms.md    ✅ Complete
│   ├── getting-started.md       ✅ Complete
│   ├── comparison.md            ✅ Complete
│   ├── schema-basics.md         ✅ Complete
│   ├── field-types.md           ✅ Stub
│   ├── validation.md            ✅ Stub
│   ├── complex-types.md         📝 TODO
│   ├── custom-components.md     📝 TODO
│   ├── theming.md               📝 TODO
│   ├── custom-validators.md     📝 TODO
│   ├── i18n.md                  📝 TODO
│   └── rbac.md                  📝 TODO
├── api/                    # API reference
│   ├── form-options.md          ✅ Complete
│   ├── components.md            📝 TODO
│   ├── composables.md           📝 TODO
│   ├── schema-extensions.md     📝 TODO
│   └── testers-registry.md      📝 TODO
├── examples/               # Examples
│   ├── basic-form.md            ✅ Complete
│   ├── nested-objects.md        📝 TODO
│   ├── arrays.md                📝 TODO
│   ├── conditional-fields.md    📝 TODO
│   ├── custom-validation.md     📝 TODO
│   └── theming.md               📝 TODO
├── packages/               # Package docs
│   ├── core.md                  📝 TODO
│   ├── vue.md                   📝 TODO
│   └── quasar.md                📝 TODO
├── public/                 # Static assets
├── index.md                ✅ Homepage complete
└── README.md               ✅ Setup instructions

3. Scripts Added to package.json

{
  "docs:dev": "vitepress dev docs",       // Start dev server
  "docs:build": "vitepress build docs",   // Build for production
  "docs:preview": "vitepress preview docs" // Preview production build
}

4. GitHub Actions Deployment

  • ✅ Workflow file created: .github/workflows/deploy-docs.yml
  • ✅ Automatically deploys to GitHub Pages on push to main
  • ✅ Manual deployment trigger available

5. Content Migrated from README

The following content has been extracted and organized from your main README:

  • Homepage - Hero section with features and quick example
  • What is QuickForms - Philosophy and use cases
  • Getting Started - Installation and first form tutorial
  • Comparison - Detailed comparison with JSONForms
  • Schema Basics - JSON Schema fundamentals
  • Form Options API - Complete API reference
  • Basic Example - Working code example with explanations

Usage

Development

# Start local dev server (with hot reload)
pnpm docs:dev

# Opens at http://localhost:5175 (or next available port)

Build & Preview

# Build for production
pnpm docs:build

# Preview production build
pnpm docs:preview

Deploy to GitHub Pages

  1. Enable GitHub Pages in your repository settings:

    • Go to Settings → Pages
    • Source: GitHub Actions

  2. Push to main branch - The workflow will automatically build and deploy

  3. Your docs will be live at:

    • https://<username>.github.io/<repo-name>/
    • Example: https://quickflo.github.io/quickforms/

Next Steps

Content to Add

The following pages are stubbed out or need to be created:

High Priority

  1. guide/complex-types.md - Nested objects, arrays, oneOf/anyOf/allOf
  2. guide/custom-validators.md - Sync/async validation examples
  3. guide/theming.md - CSS variables and styling guide
  4. api/schema-extensions.md - Document all x-* attributes

Medium Priority

  1. api/components.md - DynamicForm, field components reference
  2. api/composables.md - useFormField, useFormContext docs
  3. examples/nested-objects.md - Working example
  4. examples/arrays.md - Working example
  5. examples/conditional-fields.md - oneOf/anyOf examples

Lower Priority

  1. guide/custom-components.md - Component registry and testers
  2. guide/i18n.md - Internationalization guide
  3. guide/rbac.md - Role-based access control
  4. api/testers-registry.md - Tester system reference
  5. Package docs - core.md, vue.md, quasar.md

Extracting Content from README

Your main README is quite comprehensive. Consider extracting these sections:

  • Validation section → guide/validation.md (partially done)
  • Complex types examples → guide/complex-types.md
  • Custom validators section → guide/custom-validators.md
  • Theming section → guide/theming.md
  • RBAC section → guide/rbac.md
  • i18n section → guide/i18n.md
  • Supported JSON Schema features → api/schema-extensions.md

Updating the Main README

Once docs are complete, simplify the main README to:

  • Brief introduction
  • Quick install and example
  • Link to full documentation
  • Contributing guidelines
  • License

Features

What Works Out of the Box

  • ✅ Beautiful UI - Purple-themed, modern design
  • ✅ Search - Full-text search across all docs
  • ✅ Code highlighting - Syntax highlighting for Vue, TypeScript, etc.
  • ✅ Code groups - Tab-based code examples (pnpm/npm/yarn)
  • ✅ Navigation - Automatic sidebar and page navigation
  • ✅ Mobile responsive - Works great on all devices
  • ✅ Dark mode - Automatic theme switching
  • ✅ Fast - Built with Vite, instant HMR

Customization Options

The theme is already customized with QuickForms branding:

  • Purple color scheme (#8b5cf6)
  • Custom hero gradient
  • QuickForms logo support (add docs/public/logo.svg)

To further customize, edit:

  • docs/.vitepress/config.mts - Site configuration
  • docs/.vitepress/theme/custom.css - Styling

Assets

Add the following assets to docs/public/:

  • logo.svg - QuickForms logo for navigation
  • Copy docs/assets/banner.readme.1280x320.png to docs/public/assets/ for homepage

Tips

  1. Keep README concise - Now that you have docs, the README can be much shorter
  2. Link to docs - Add a prominent "Documentation" link in README
  3. Use VitePress features:
    • ::: warning / ::: tip / ::: danger callouts
    • Code groups for multi-language examples
    • Custom components in markdown
  4. Test examples - Make sure all code examples actually work
  5. Internal linking - Use relative paths: [Link](/guide/page)

Maintenance

  • Update VitePress: pnpm add -D vitepress@latest
  • Check for broken links: VitePress has built-in dead link checking
  • Review analytics: Consider adding Google Analytics or similar

Your docs are ready to go! 🚀

Run pnpm docs:dev to see them in action.