<description>Before you can set about documenting patterns, you need to know where everything goes. The simplest folder structure looks like this:
└── content ├── _index.md └── patterns ├── name-of-my-pattern.md └── name-of-my-other-pattern.md /content - This is where all of your content lives. You won&rsquo;t need to visit any other folders very frequently. _index.md — This is the content for your home page. /patterns — This is the folder where individual pattern files are kept.</description>
<description>In Infusion, design patterns are documented using markdown. To create a new pattern file, just add a file with the .md extension to the /patterns folder. It&rsquo;s recommended you use &ldquo;kebab case&rdquo; to name the file ( words separated by hyphens). For example, a pattern with the title &ldquo;Menu button&rdquo; should probably have the filename menu-button. Then you get a nice clean URL: your-company.com/patterns/menu-button.
If you&rsquo;re not familiar with writing markdown, there are a number of tutorials available.</description>
<description>In some cases, where there is a lot of content, it&rsquo;s helpful to collapse certain sections. That way, readers get an overview of what&rsquo;s in the content and can choose where to focus in. Infusion provides a shortcode method for creating expandable sections which generates accessible markup using aria-expanded.
The expandable shortcode takes three parameters:
label — This is the label for the the section heading. level — This is the heading level (e.</description>
<description>Markdown already supports code samples both inline (using single backticks like `some code here`) and in blocks. Infusion will syntax highlight HTML, CSS, and JavaScript if you provide the correct language in the formulation of the block.
So, this&hellip;
```html &lt;button aria-pressed="false"toggle me&lt;/button ``` &hellip; will result in this:
&lt;button aria-pressed=&quot;false&quot;&gt;toggle me&lt;/button&gt; Note that the syntax highlighting uses a greyscale theme. Infusion is careful not to use color as part of its own design, because these colors may clash with those of the design being illustrated and discussed.</description>
<description>Sometimes just pictures of the pattern you&rsquo;re documenting aren&rsquo;t enough. Interactive patterns benefit from live demos, so that readers can test their functionality.
Infusion offers a couple of ways to do this. The first is by embedding CodePen demos into the content. The codePen shortcode takes just one argument: the codePen&rsquo;s ID.
&#x7b;{% codePen VpVNKW %}} This will embed the identified codePen into the content wherever you placed the shortcode, with the result view showing by default:</description>
<description>There&rsquo;s no reason why your Infusion-powered pattern library has to be all about functionality. You can include style guide-like information such as color palettes too. The colors shortcode makes it easy to exhibit colors and their values together. Just supply a comma-separated list of CSS color values.
&#x7b;{% colors "#111111, #cccccc, #ffffff" %}} The result is a one row strip showing each color supplied in order. The colors for Infusion are greyscale:</description>
<description>From time to time, you&rsquo;ll be wanting to include images illustrating the documented pattern in hand. Images live in the static folder, which is a sibling of the /content folder you&rsquo;ll be mostly working in.
├── content └── static └── images ├── logo.png └── menu-button.gif When you first make a copy of Infusion, Infusion&rsquo;s own logo will be included. You should replace this with your own company or project logo.</description>
<description>Infusion is built using the static site engine, Hugo, and NPM. The codebase is available to download on Github. Let&rsquo;s get set up step-by-step.
1. Install Hugo First we need to install Hugo globally.
OSX users If you are a Mac user and have Homebrew on your system, installing Hugo is simple:
brew install hugo Alternatively, you can manually install Hugo from a package. You can verify the installation was successful by typing:</description>
<description>By now, you should have followed the Installation instructions. You should have Hugo and Node installed, and a local copy of a forked version of Infusion. You should also have run npm install in the root of that codebase.
&ldquo;Cleaning&rdquo; the content folder Before you can start documenting patterns, there are a few things still to do in order to get set up. At the moment, your version of Infusion is a facsimile of the original, containing all this documentation content.</description>
<description>Infusion acknowledges that simple markdown is limiting when it comes to writing compelling documentation, so it provides a number of &ldquo;shortcodes&rdquo;. Shortcodes offer a simple syntax for including rich content. For example, Infusion provides shortcodes for including notes and warnings.
Notes You may wish to pick out some content in your pattern&rsquo;s documentation as a note — an aside to the main thrust of the pattern&rsquo;s description. This is possible using the following syntax:</description>
<description>Cross-references Infusion provides an easy mechanism to cross-reference patterns, by title, using the pattern shortcode. For example, I can reference the Notes &amp; warnings pattern. Here&rsquo;s what the markdown looks like, including the shortcode:
I can reference the &#x7b;{% pattern "Notes & warnings" %}} pattern here. This saves you having to worry about pathing and decorates the generated link with a bookmark icon, identifying the link as a pattern reference visually.</description>
<description>Serving locally While you&rsquo;re creating content for your library, you&rsquo;ll probably want to see what the finished product looks like. Fortunately, Infusion is easy to serve locally using the serve command:
npm run serve This will serve your working library on localhost:1313. Whenever you make changes to your library&rsquo;s files, the site will automatically rebuild. No need to refresh the web page!
<description>There are some issues with CodePen embedding , like them not working offline. They also come with CodePen branding, which will clash with the pattern you&rsquo;re trying to illustrate.
Infusion offers another option: a special demo shortcode that allows you to write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript directly into the markdown file. The outputted demo is encapsulated using Shadow DOM, so you don&rsquo;t have to worry about broken styles and global JS.</description>
