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import { Steps } from 'nextra/components'

Get Started

Quick start with Vercel

You can start by creating your own Nextra site and deploying to Vercel by clicking the link:

Vercel will create the Nextra repository and deploy the site for you with just a few clicks. Once done, every change in the repository will be deployed automatically.

Create manually

Nextra works like a Next.js plugin, and it accepts a theme config (layout) to render the page. To start: 1

<Steps> ### Install Next.js, Nextra and React [^1]
sh
npm i react react-dom next nextra

Install the docs theme 2

sh
npm i nextra-theme-docs

Create the following Next.js config and theme config under the root directory

js
import nextra from 'nextra'

const withNextra = nextra({
  theme: 'nextra-theme-blog',
  themeConfig: './theme.config.js'
})
export default withNextra()

Create a theme.config.js file for the docs theme

js
export default {
  project: {
    link: 'https://github.com/shuding/nextra' // GitHub link in the navbar
  },
  docsRepositoryBase: 'https://github.com/shuding/nextra/blob/master', // base URL for the docs repository
  getNextSeoProps: () => ({ titleTemplate: '%s – Nextra' }),
  navigation: true,
  darkMode: true,
  footer: {
    text: `MIT ${new Date().getFullYear()} © Shu Ding.`
  },
  editLink: {
    text: 'Edit this page on GitHub'
  },
  logo: (
    <>
      <svg>...</svg>
      <span>Next.js Static Site Generator</span>
    </>
  ),
  head: (
    <>
      <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
      <meta name="description" content="Nextra: the next docs builder" />
      <meta name="og:title" content="Nextra: the next docs builder" />
    </>
  ),
  primaryHue: {
    dark: 204,
    light: 212
  }
}

[!NOTE]

More configuration options for the docs theme can be found here.

You are good to go! Run next dev to start

</Steps>
<span id="sidebar-and-anchor-links" />

[!NOTE]

Any .md or .mdx file will turn into a doc page and be displayed in sidebar. You can also create a _meta.js file to customize the page order and title. Check the source code: https://github.com/shuding/nextra for more information.

[!TIP]

You can also use <style jsx> to style elements inside theme.config.js.

Footnotes

  1. To start.

  2. Install the docs theme.