Creating Pages

In this section, we will learn about creating ad-hoc pages in Docusaurus using React. This is most useful for creating one-off standalone pages like a showcase page, playground page or support page.

Adding a new page

In the /src/pages/ directory, create a file called hello.js with the following contents:

import React from 'react';

import Layout from '@theme/Layout';

function Hello() {

return (

<Layout title="Hello">

<div

style={{

display: 'flex',

justifyContent: 'center',

alignItems: 'center',

height: '50vh',

fontSize: '20px',

}}>

<p>

Edit <code>pages/hello.js</code> and save to reload.

</p>

</div>

</Layout>

);

}

export default Hello;

Once you save the file, the development server will automatically reload the changes. Now open http://localhost:3000/hello, you will see the new page you just created.

Each page doesn't come with any styling. You will need to import the Layout component from @theme/Layout and wrap your contents within that component if you want the navbar and/or footer to appear.

tip

You can also create a page in TypeScript, in which case the its file name should use the .tsx extension, eg. hello.tsx.

Routing

If you are familiar with other static site generators like Jekyll and Next, this routing approach will feel familiar to you. Any JavaScript file you create under /src/pages/ directory will be automatically converted to a website page, following the /src/pages/ directory hierarchy. For example:

• /src/pages/index.js → <baseUrl>
• /src/pages/foo.js → <baseUrl>/foo
• /src/pages/foo/test.js → <baseUrl>/foo/test
• /src/pages/foo/index.js → <baseUrl>/foo/

In this component-based development era, it is encouraged to co-locate your styling, markup and behavior together into components. Each page is a component, and if you need to customize your page design with your own styles, we recommend co-locating your styles with the page component in its own directory. For example, to create a "Support" page, you could do one of the following:

• Add a /src/pages/support.js file
• Create a /src/pages/support/ directory and a /src/pages/support/index.js file.

The latter is preferred as it has the benefits of letting you put files related to the page within that directory. For e.g. a CSS module file (styles.module.css) with styles meant to only be used on the "Support" page. Note: this is merely a recommended directory structure and you will still need to manually import the CSS module file within your component module (support/index.js).

my-website

├── src

│ └── pages

│ ├── styles.module.css

│ ├── index.js

│ └── support

│ ├── index.js

│ └── styles.module.css

.

Using React

React is used as the UI library to create pages. Every page component should export a React component and you can leverage on the expressiveness of React to build rich and interactive content.