isabella232 / legacy-api-docs

Docs for GoCardless legacy API

GoCardless API Docs

View API Docs: https://developer.gocardless.com

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Running locally

npm install
npm start

Deploying

cap staging deploy
cap production deploy

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TOC Ordering

Pages are ordered by sorting a concatenated string constructed from the folder tree plus the file name.

Example:

/source/docs/01_resources/01_bill/01_overview.md > "01_resources02_bill01_overview.md"
/source/docs/01_resources/02_merchant/01_overview.md > "01_resources002_merchant01_overview.md"

TOC Construction

The navigation tree is built by parsing the headings on the rendered page.

• h0 represents a nav section header (e.g. "API")
• h1 represents a top level item in the nav (e.g. "Bill")
• h2 represents a sub resource (e.g. "Create a one-off bill")

This means you need to make sure the pages and their heading levels are ordered in the right way within the docs folder.

The folder tree does not change the navigation nesting

Example:

<h0>API</h0>
<h1>Overview</h1>
<h0>Resource</h0>
<h1>Bill</h1>
<h2>Create one-off bill</h2>

Would render:

<ul>
  <li>
    <span>API</span>
    <ul>
      <li><a href>Overview</a></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>
    <span>Resources</span>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <a href>Bill</a>
        <ul>
          <li><a href>Create one-off bill</a></li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

If the heading levels are out of order the navigation nesting will break. For example, if page ordering ends up putting the h2 before the h1 for the same resource.

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Code samples

The default language is HTTP

Article independent code samples must be placed in a code folder in the article folder.

Name the code examples using the appropriate extname from ./data/languages.json

Code articles

The default language is HTTP

Entire pages can be shown for specific languages by adding the language extname to the filename.

Example:

• Only show for Ruby getting_started.rb.md
• Show default (HTTP): getting_started.http.md

The appropriate extname can be found in ./data/languages.json