vuepress-theme-alexs [en]

Installation

yarn add vuepress-theme-alexs -S

or with npm

npm install vuepress-theme-alexs --save-dev

Article

Render an overview of the article To generate a preview of the post on the cards, use excerpt by adding <!-- more --> after the first paragraph or first few introductory lines in your post.

## What is Vue.js -
In this post I will talk about Vue.js
<!-- more -->
Vue.js is awesome

As in the above form, adding the <!-- more --> tag to the md file, will render the content before this tag into the articles list as their preview.

Articles meta-data

this will create a folder called javascript and a README.md file in it with required data automatically. You can then make changes to this file like changing the title and metadata, tags etc.

title: Article title
# date is used for article sorting
date: 2017-08-15 10:27:26
tag: # Article tag, can be a String or an Array
  - js
  - react
# Meta tags that can be used to crawl by search engines
meta:
  - name: description
    content: Some description about your post
  - name: keywords # keywords Tags, will be queried when searching within pages
    content: theme vuepress

To let the theme filter by tags, add the following information alongside your previous themeConfig in config.js inside .vuepress folder

tags

module.exports = {
  themeConfig: {
    tags: true,
    nav: [
      { text: 'TAGS', link: '/tags/', tags: true }
    ]
  }
}

the above configuration let's theme know that TAGS field in the navbar is specifically for browsing tags from posts. When you visit the above path, it looks like following:

Comment System

Use Valine for comment system, click Valine for more details.

Configuration

For your reference, I have put the configuration of my blog (.vuepress/config.js) here:

module.exports = {
  // Enable custom themes
  theme: 'alexs',
  title: 'alexs',
  description: 'vuepress theme alexs',
  head: [
      ['link', { rel: 'icon', href: `/favicon.ico` }]
  ],
  port: 3000,
  // Google Analytics ID
  ga: 'xxxxx',
  // PWA support
  serviceWorker: true,
  // fuck IE
  evergreen: true,
  markdown: {
    // markdown-it-anchor options
    anchor: { permalink: true },
    // markdown-it-toc options
    toc: { includeLevel: [1, 2] },
    config: md => {
      md.use(require('markdown-it-task-lists')) // a checkbox TODO List plugin
        .use(require('markdown-it-imsize'), { autofill: true }) // Support for custom md image size ![test](image.png =100x200)
    }
  },
  // alexs theme specific configuration
  themeConfig: {
    // Blog background image
    background: '/background/path',
    tags: true,
    // github card
    github: 'github username',
    // favicon image (logo)
    logo: '/logo/path',
    // Custom article title color
    accentColor: '#ac3e40',
    // Number of articles displayed per page
    per_page: 5,
    // The time format for creating an article. If not set, it will not be displayed. Optional [yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss]
    date_format: 'yyyy-MM-dd',
    // options for comment (gitalk), don't support flipMoveOptions and render instane method
    comment: {
      clientID: 'GitHub Application Client ID',
      clientSecret: 'GitHub Application Client Secret',
      repo: 'GitHub repo',
      owner: 'GitHub repo owner',
      admin: ['GitHub repo owner and collaborators, only these guys can initialize github issues'],
      perPage: 5,
      id: location.pathname,      // Ensure uniqueness and length less than 50
      distractionFreeMode: false  // Facebook-like distraction free mode
    },
    // customize the links on the navigation bar
    nav: [
        { text: 'HOME', link: '/', root: true }, // Specify this as the root directory of the blog post
        { text: 'TAGS', link: '/tags/', tags: true }, // Specify the tags directory
        { text: 'GITHUB', link: 'https://github.com/bloss' },
        { text: 'about me', link: '/about/' },
    ]
  }
}

customize the layout

to customize the layout, add the following to the header of the markdown file

heroText: alexs # title
activity: true # Use a custom activity layout that will collapse the card bar on the right
hidden: true # Set whether to display in the article list
tagline: Vuepress blog theme # description
heroImage: /static/logo.png # logo
# Refer to the configuration of the official default theme for service static files
actionText: Learn about →
actionLink: /alexs/usage.html
# If you want to have more than one action button (in this case actionText and actionLink will be ignored):
# actions :
#    - text : Action1
#      link : /alexs/action1.html
#    - text : Action2
#      link : /alexs/action2.html
features:
  - title: what is this
    details: A vuepress-based blog theme based on the default theme provided by vuepress
  - title: What are the characteristics?
    details: Provide article list, article pagination, article details, github card, custom event page layout, etc.
  - title: TODO
    details: Tag cloud, TAG ARCHIVE, some scripts, some out of the box layout
footer: by stickmy

Development, deployment

In the docs directory (or the root of your project), be sure to put a markdown file called README.md for generating the root path, which can be an empty file

You can use the following scripts to run the vuepress commands or you can run them directly, whichever you prefer

package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "docs:dev": "vuepress dev {dirName}",
    "docs:build": "vuepress build {dirName}"
  }
}

If you haven't installed vuepress gloablly, these scripts will be helpful to find the vuepress binaries from node_modules/.bin directory and execute them on shell. to execute above scripts, run:

npm run docs:dev

or

npm run docs:build

Accordingly.

TODO

• Tag Cloud
• Article classification
• More cards like github card