* Allow unlimited multi-level navigation
This PR supersedes #462.
The only user-level difference from #462 is that disambiguation of parent pages has to use either `grand_parent` or `ancestor` titles: the somewhat unnatural `section_id` and `in_section` fields are not supported.
The implementation has been significantly simplified by the changes introduced in v0.7.0 of the theme.
* Detect cyclic parenthood
A page should not have a parent or ancestor with the same title. If it does, the location of the repeated link is marked by ∞, to facilitate debugging the navigation (and an unbounded loop leading to a build exception is avoided).
* Add nav_error_report warning in main navigation
When activated by `nav_error_report: true` in `_config.yml`, displays warnings about pages with the same title as their parent page or an ancestral page.
* Cache site-nav with links to all pages
The extra cached site-nav is used for determining breadcrumbs and children navigation, which may involve pages that are excluded from the main navigation.
* Replace code for determining children by inclusion of components/nav/children.html
* Update CHANGELOG.md
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Co-authored-by: Matt Wang <matt@matthewwang.me>
We are running into an issue upgrading from 0.7 to 0.8, suggesting that `trim` is not a method.
```
1.963 Liquid Exception: Liquid error (/usr/gem/gems/just-the-docs-0.8.0/_includes/components/breadcrumbs.html line 59): undefined filter trim included in /_layouts/default.html
1.968 /usr/gem/gems/liquid-4.0.4/lib/liquid/strainer.rb:58:in `invoke': Liquid error (/usr/gem/gems/just-the-docs-0.8.0/_includes/components/breadcrumbs.html line 59): undefined filter trim included (Liquid::UndefinedFilter)
```
Looking at the liquid docs, we're probably looking for `strip` and not `trim`
https://shopify.github.io/liquid/filters/strip/https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/blob/main/History.md#300--2014-11-12, I don't see a trim so it may have been an extension? This does work normally on just-the-docs itself running from scratch, so it might also be a bug in our application (or combination of different versions in plugins).
* Remove "passive" toggle
PR #1244 introduced the "passive" toggle, but just-the-docs.js subsequently disabled the only styling that used it, so it became redundant.
This removes it.
* Reduce build time for page-dependent CSS
Fix#1323
- Remove `_includes/head_nav.html`.
- Generate page-independent SCSS in `assets/css/just-the-docs-head-nav.css`.
- Link to `/assets/css/just-the-docs-head-nav.css` in `head.html`.
- Disable the above stylesheet in `assets/js/just-the-docs.js`.
- Generate page-dependent CSS in `_includes/css/activation.scss.liquid` and include in `head.html`.
* No override svg rotate
* Disable both stylesheets safely
* Move the site nav to a new include
- Fix the complete site nav
- Move the site nav to `_includes/site_nav.html`
- Cache the site nav
- Uncache `nav.html`
* Move nav and site_nav to _includes/components
* Replace id prefix
* Update breadcrumbs.html
Replace several filters by a single loop through all the pages,
but breaking as soon as possible.
Profiling indicates that this saves up to 50% of the breadcrumbs build time for the filters.
* Update just-the-docs-head-nav.css
Adjust the number of lines to keep
* Update head.html
Remove superflous type.
* Update activation.scss.liquid
Remove a superfluous closing brace.
Adjust layout.
* Use `scssify` to remove nesting
Preliminary profiling indicates that using `scssify` on the small number of nested CSS rules produced by `activation.scss.liquid` is quick enough.
* Update head.scss
Manual attempt at prettier (pending installation in Atom).
* Avoid generation of nested CSS
Local profiling indicated that using `scssify` on each page takes about 1% of the build time.
- Update `_includes/css/activation.scss.liquid` to generate non-nested CSS.
- Remove use of `scssify` from `_includes/head.html`.
* Ignore false positives from validator
Ignores: `:1.810-1.823: error: CSS: Parse Error.` and `:1.811-1.824: error: CSS: Parse Error.`; had to shift things around since the local config overrides the CI flag.
* Inline `_sass/head.css`
* Update CHANGELOG.md
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* Refactor nav, breadcrumbs, children_nav
Fix#1118
Improve the modularity of building the nav-panel, breadcrumbs, and children-nav
by making them independent. This also significantly simplifies the Liquid code.
* Fix order of breadcrumbs
* Update breadcrumbs.html
Revert inclusion of single breadcrumb for top-level pages.
* Update breadcrumbs.html
* Update children_nav.html
Revert to the previous layout in the HTML, to allow the use of `diff` to check the built site.
* Update minimal.html
Remove the previously required workaround involving `nav.html`.
* Add docs pages about layouts
The aim of the initial version of these docs pages is to illustrate the difference between the default and minimal layouts.
* Update CHANGELOG.md
Hi everyone, this is a large refactoring PR that looks to **modularize site components** following the discussion in #959. At the top-level, it:
- moves icons, the sidebar, header (navbar, search, aux links), footer, and mermaid components of the `default` layout into their own `_includes`
- creates a new `minimal` layout that does not render the header or sidebar as a proof-of-concept for the composability of components
- documents all existing and new layouts (including vendor code) in the "Customization" section
An important goal of this PR is for it to be **just code motion and flexibility**: there should be **zero impact** on the average end user that only consumes the `default` theme.
The next few sections go in-depth on each of the listed changes.
### new components
The `default` layout contains a "list" of all relevant components. Importantly, some of these components have sub-components:
- the header is split into the search bar, custom code, and aux links
- the icons include imports different icon components, some of which are conditionally imported by feature guards
There are also candidates for future splits and joins:
- the sidebar could be split into navigation, collections, external link, and header/footer code
- the "search footer" could be joined with other search code, which would make it easier to "include search" in one go; *however, this is a markup change*
- @kevinlin1 has pointed out that there is some leakage between the sidebar (which computes parents/grandparents) and the breadcrumbs (which needs them to render). He's graciously added a bandaid fix to `minimal` (which does not render the sidebar). However, in the long term, we should either:
- calculate this in a parent and pass the information to both components
- change how this works entirely (which may happen with multi-level navigation)
@pdmosses has done a great job outlining this and more in his [Modular Layouts test site](https://pdmosses.github.io/modular-layouts/docs/main/).
### minimal layout
Based on @kevinlin1's use-case in just-the-class (see: his [Winter 2023 CSE 373 site](https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse373/23wi/)), we've created a first-class `minimal` layout that does not render the sidebar or header.
In a [comment](https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1058#discussion_r1057015039), Kevin has indicated that we can re-add the search bar in the minimal layout; however, it seems like this would be a code change. I think we should punt this to a future issue/PR.
@pdmosses has also discussed the confusion of `minimal` as a layout and its meaning in inheritance. I've added a note in documentation to clarify the (lack of) inheritance relationship.
### documentation
I've written documentation in the "Customization" page / [Custom layouts and includes](https://deploy-preview-1058--just-the-docs.netlify.app/docs/customization/#custom-layouts-and-includes) section explaining:
- generally, that we use includes/layouts (and pointing to docs)
- the `default` layout and its constituent components (with a warning about name collisions)
- creating alternative layouts with `minimal` as an example
- the inheritance chain of layouts and the vendor layouts that we consume
I've also created (and linked to) a [minimal layout test](https://deploy-preview-1058--just-the-docs.netlify.app/docs/minimal-test/) that is currently a copy of the markdown kitchen sink but with the minimal layout. I think there's room to improve this in the future.
### future work
I think there's a lot we can do. Let me break this into various sections.
Potential follow-ups before `v0.4.0`:
- re-including search in `minimal` (anticipating a minor code change)
- fixing the leakage of parent/grandparent information between the sidebar and breadcrumbs (anticipating no end-user code change, but good to evaluate separately and discuss)
- heavily document this in the migration guide (#1059) and in our RC4 release docs
- improve semantic markup for components (ex `main`, `nav`)
Related work in later minor versions:
- split up components into smaller components
- allow users to easily customize new layouts using frontmatter (see @kevinlin1's [comment in #959](https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/issues/959#issuecomment-1249755249))
Related work for `v1.0` (i.e. a major breaking change):
- rename and better categorize existing includes
- standardizing the "custom" includes
- moving other components to the `components/` folder (ex `head`, `nav`)
- potentially: less confusing naming for various components
- potentially separate the search and header as components, so that they are completely independent
Tangentially related work:
- more flexible grid (see @JPrevost's [comment in this PR thread](https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1058#issuecomment-1363314610))
- a formal [feature model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_model) of JTD, documenting feature dependence (see @pdmosses's [comment in this PR thread](https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/pull/1058#issuecomment-1365414023))
- better annotate new features (motivated by writing these docs)
- we should add "New" to new features :)
- we should note when a feature was introduced (I think this is a core part of most software documentation)
- we should annotate things that are "Advanced" in so far as the average Just the Docs user will not use them / they require significant Jekyll knowledge
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Closes#959.
