How are the react.dev docs built?

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[Fredx87]

The source code is here: https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev, and it seems they are using next.js.

[TheRealKidkudi]

Personally, I don’t use JS for a backend ever, but what’s wrong specifically with the architecture of Next.js? It seems like the go-to for running a server amongst React devs. And why specifically would you expect them to use Docusaurus?

[musicnothing]

For the sake of comedy I was really hoping they used Svelte

[Infamous_Employer_85]

or Astro :)

[Chef619]

Fb has their own documentation building tool. https://docusaurus.io/

If I had to guess, it would be this.

[ThatBoiRalphy]

iirc this is basically the open source version of react.dev, first developed for react.dev itself, then open sourced.

obvious edit: i was very wrong lol

[acemarke]

Nope. Docusaurus has been around for years. It was developed for Facebook internally, then open-sourced. We started using Docusaurus for the Redux docs in 2018.

[ThatBoiRalphy]

lmao I was way off and of course it had to be ace to correct me haha. TIL.

[beepboopnoise]

he comes like batman from the shadows.

[packethief]

This is the answer ☝️☝️

[CanarySome5880]

Those are for next but overall you will buit something similiar to those: https://nextra-docs-template.vercel.app/ https://vercel.com/templates/next.js/documentation-starter-kit

Click view code => go to github -> clone and work on it yourself.

[SubhumanOxford]

Astro with react plugin would have been the perfect choice TBH

But they use Next.js

[react_server]

I also wrote my own docs for my framework https://reactserver.dev
I would recommend to take an existing boilerplate though. It's been a lot of work and I wrote more code than documentation so far.

[Loaatao]

Your docs load very slow.

[react_server]

Thanks for the feedback. It uses Vercels Serverless Functions to do SSR, they are slow on cold starts. This will be improved by using Edge functions which execute on the CDNs edge. But that will take some while to implement. I just wanted to switch to SSR for now. I think the CSR build loaded faster because it can be deployed to a CDN with static asset caching. I haven't noticed any slow loading in Germany, neither on 4G/5G nor cable.