Jekyll flat API

A Jekyll theme for API documentation. It is inspired by the beautifully designed API of unsplash.

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Usage

Simply run

jekyll server

If something goes wrong, follow the instruction from jekyll.

Creating content

The content of the API is located in _documentation. You can create as many folders as you want to organize your API. In each subfolder of _documentation, you may find markdown files.

Jekyll tags

Files with front: true in their header will be presented as sections leaders in the navigation bar. Those leaders can be ordered using the order: tag in the markdown file. For example, _documentation/photos/photos.md is the leader of the photo section.

It is very important that the files with front: false have a permalink such that it contains the permalink of its section leader.

Image

The top image and the main title can be modified in _includes/home.html.

Navbar

The API status url in the navbar can be modified in _includes/nav.html

Thumbnails

At the top of the page, you may find small squares. You can create them using the tag thumbnail: true in the mardown files. You can have as many as you like.

Style

If you want to modify the style, have a look at _sass/layout.scss. At the top, you will find variables that control most of the colors.