Maabarium Docs

User-facing documentation for Maabarium, published at docs.maabarium.com.

Stack choice

This site uses Astro + Starlight.

Why this stack:

• It is purpose-built for documentation.
• It is static-first and deploys cleanly to Cloudflare Pages.
• It includes free local search through Pagefind.
• It lives in the same Astro ecosystem as the marketing site, which keeps visual parity and maintenance cost under control.

Local development

pnpm install
pnpm dev

If you need the docs site to build against a non-default GA4 property, set PUBLIC_GA_MEASUREMENT_ID before running the dev server or production build.

Validation

pnpm build

Information architecture

• src/content/docs/getting-started/: onboarding and first-use flows
• src/content/docs/guides/: task-oriented user guides
• src/content/docs/reference/: durable power-user and operator material
• src/content/docs/community/: contribution and maintenance guidance

Search

Search is powered by Starlight's Pagefind integration. It is static, local, and free to run.

Deployment

GitHub Actions builds the site on pull requests and deploys on pushes to master.

Repository secrets required for deployment:

• CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN
• CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID

Repository variable used during the GitHub Actions build:

• PUBLIC_GA_MEASUREMENT_ID

How analytics property selection works:

• The docs site has its own fallback GA4 property in src/config.ts.
• GitHub Actions passes PUBLIC_GA_MEASUREMENT_ID into the build when the repository variable is set.
• If the variable is unset, the build falls back to the default docs property in src/config.ts.
• This value is public configuration, so it belongs in a repository variable rather than a secret.

Cloudflare Pages project details:

• project name: maabarium-docs
• production hostname: docs.maabarium.com

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.