Organizing Pages

Overview

This is a shared convention for organizing your pages, followed by all file-system based content sources including Adalt MDX.

File

A MDX or Markdown file.

Frontmatter

By default, it includes:

You may extend your content source to add additional properties.

---
title: My Page
description: Best document ever
icon: HomeIcon
full: false
---
 
## Learn More

Folder

Organize multiple pages. When not specified, the display name will be generated from its folder name.

Pages are sorted alphabetically, except for index.mdx which is always ordered at the top.

To customise folders, see Meta file.

Folder Group

By default, putting a file into folder will change its slugs and generated page URL. You can use folder group to add a folder without impacting the slugs of child files.

To create a folder group, wrap the folder name in parentheses.

Meta

Customize a folder by creating a meta.json file in the folder.

Display Name

{
  "title": "Name of Folder"
}

Icon

Specify an icon name for folder with the icon property, see Icons.

{
  "title": "My Folder",
  "icon": "MyIcon"
}

Pages

Control the order of items.

When a meta file is present, items are not included unless you have explicitly added them to pages.

{
  "title": "Name of Folder",
  "pages": ["guide", "components"]
}

Path

The items of pages property can be a relative path to a page or folder. File extensions are not required.

{
  "title": "Name of Folder",
  "pages": ["../headless/page"]
}

Open by Default

Force to open the folder by default.

{
  "title": "Name of Folder",
  "defaultOpen": true
}

Separator

You can define a separator in meta by adding a item surrounded with ---.

{
  "title": "Name of Folder",
  "pages": ["---Separator---"]
}

Rest

Add a Rest (...) item to automatically add and sort remaining page items.

{
  "title": "Folder",
  "pages": ["guide", "..."]
}

Except

In conjunction with the Rest item (...), you can use !name to exclude an item from the rest.

{
  "title": "Folder",
  "pages": ["...", "!hide-this-page"]
}

Extract

You can extract the items from a folder with ...folder_name.

{
  "title": "Folder",
  "pages": ["guide", "...folder"]
}

Link

Use the syntax [Text](url) to insert links.

{
  "title": "Folder",
  "pages": ["index", "[Vercel](https://vercel.com)"]
}

You can add an icon too.

{
  "title": "Folder",
  "pages": ["index", "[Triangle][Vercel](https://vercel.com)"]
}

Icons

Since Adalt doesn't include an icon library, you have to convert the icon names to JSX elements so that it can be rendered as a component.

For built-in content sources like Adalt MDX, you can use the icon handler from Source API.

Multiple Page Trees

Adding a root property in meta file can mark your folder as a root.

{
  "title": "Name of Folder",
  "root": true
}

When the user is browsing a page under a root folder, only the child items of the folder will be visible.

For example, when you are in a root folder called core, the other folders (e.g. ui) are not shown on the sidebar (and other navigation elements).

To allow users switching between different roots, implement a component that navigates to a page under the root folders. On Adalt UI, this is available via the Root Toggle component.

Internationalization

You can create a localized page for specific language by adding .{locale} to your file name. Pages can't be language-specific, you must create a page for default locale in order to have its localized version.

This works for meta files too, you can add .{locale} to the file name like meta.cn.json.

Example

Assume your default language is en.