Presets

Presets are collections of plugins and themes.

Using presets

A preset is usually a npm package, so you install them like other npm packages using npm.

npm

npm install --save docusaurus-preset-name

Yarn

yarn add docusaurus-preset-name

Then, add it in your site's docusaurus.config.js's presets option:

docusaurus.config.js

module.exports = {  // ...  presets: ['@docusaurus/preset-xxxx'],};

To load presets from your local directory, specify how to resolve them:

docusaurus.config.js

const path = require('path');
module.exports = {  // ...  presets: [path.resolve(__dirname, '/path/to/docusaurus-local-presets')],};

Presets -> themes and plugins

Presets in some way are a shorthand function to add plugins and themes to your Docusaurus config. For example, you can specify a preset that includes the following themes and plugins,

module.exports = function preset(context, opts = {}) {  return {    themes: [      require.resolve('@docusaurus/themes-cool'),      require.resolve('@docusaurus/themes-bootstrap'),    ],    plugins: [require.resolve('@docusaurus/plugin-blog')],  };};

then in your Docusaurus config, you may configure the preset instead:

docusaurus.config.js

module.exports = {  // ...  presets: ['@docusaurus/preset-my-own'],};

This is equivalent of doing:

docusaurus.config.js

module.exports = {  themes: ['@docusaurus/themes-cool', '@docusaurus/themes-bootstrap'],  plugins: ['@docusaurus/plugin-blog'],};

This is especially useful when some plugins and themes are intended to be used together.

Official presets

@docusaurus/preset-classic

The classic preset that is usually shipped by default to new Docusaurus website. It is a set of plugins and themes.

Themes	Plugins
@docusaurus/theme-classic	@docusaurus/plugin-content-docs
@docusaurus/theme-search-algolia	@docusaurus/plugin-content-blog
	@docusaurus/plugin-content-pages
	@docusaurus/plugin-debug
	@docusaurus/plugin-google-analytics
	@docusaurus/plugin-google-gtag
	@docusaurus/plugin-sitemap

To specify plugin options individually, you can provide the necessary fields to certain plugins, i.e. customCss for @docusaurus/theme-classic, pass them in the preset field, like this:

docusaurus.config.js

module.exports = {  presets: [    [      '@docusaurus/preset-classic',      {        // Debug defaults to true in dev, false in prod        debug: undefined,        // Will be passed to @docusaurus/theme-classic.        theme: {          customCss: [require.resolve('./src/css/custom.css')],        },        // Will be passed to @docusaurus/plugin-content-docs (false to disable)        docs: {},        // Will be passed to @docusaurus/plugin-content-blog (false to disable)        blog: {},        // Will be passed to @docusaurus/plugin-content-pages (false to disable)        pages: {},        // Will be passed to @docusaurus/plugin-content-sitemap (false to disable)        sitemap: {},      },    ],  ],};

In addition to these plugins and themes, @docusaurus/theme-classic adds remark-admonitions as a remark plugin to @docusaurus/plugin-content-blog and @docusaurus/plugin-content-docs.

The admonitions key will be passed as the options to remark-admonitions. Passing false will prevent the plugin from being added to MDX.

docusaurus.config.js

module.exports = {  presets: [    [      '@docusaurus/preset-classic',      {        docs: {          // options for remark-admonitions          admonitions: {},        },      },    ],  ],};

@docusaurus/preset-bootstrap

An alternative preset that uses Bootstrap styling.

Themes	Plugins
@docusaurus/theme-bootstrap	@docusaurus/plugin-content-docs
	@docusaurus/plugin-content-blog
	@docusaurus/plugin-content-pages
	@docusaurus/plugin-debug

To specify plugin options individually, you can provide the necessary fields to certain plugins, i.e. docs for @docusaurus/theme-bootstrap, pass them in the preset field, like this:

docusaurus.config.js

module.exports = {  presets: [    [      '@docusaurus/preset-bootstrap',      {        // Debug defaults to true in dev, false in prod        debug: undefined,        // Will be passed to @docusaurus/plugin-content-docs (false to disable)        docs: {},        // Will be passed to @docusaurus/plugin-content-blog (false to disable)        blog: {},      },    ],  ],};

caution

This preset is work in progress