orca/docs/site

@orca/docs

This package contains the product documentation and public media intended to ship alongside Orca's source code.

Open-source product documentation for Orca, served at /docs (same URL shape as https://www.onorca.dev/docs).

This package is a self-contained Next.js app. It is intentionally not a root monorepo workspace member, so installing Electron app dependencies does not pull Next/fumadocs.

Local development

cd docs/site
pnpm --ignore-workspace install
pnpm --ignore-workspace dev

Open http://localhost:3004/docs.

Production build

cd docs/site
pnpm --ignore-workspace install
pnpm --ignore-workspace build
pnpm --ignore-workspace start

pnpm start serves the production build on port 3004. Paths:

Path	Purpose
/	Redirects to /docs
/docs	Docs index
/docs/...	Nested doc pages from content/docs
/docs/api/search	Fumadocs search index
/docs/og/...	Per-page Open Graph image route

Layout

• content/docs/ — MDX pages + meta.json navigation
• public/docs/ — docs-only media, logo, and favicon (GIFs, posters, screenshots)
• src/app/docs/ — fumadocs routes, OG images
• src/components/ — docs-scoped chrome (header/footer/search), not marketing site

Updating content

Treat the documentation tree as a deliberate publication boundary. Before importing source material, review the diff for internal references, credentials, third-party media rights, and feature/version claims, then copy only approved pages and assets. Keep the app shell and deployment configuration in this repository so a docs-only pull request can be reviewed and built independently.

Same-domain routing

The docs app is a separate Vercel project (the docs zone) and keeps the public /docs URL namespace. The marketing site remains the default zone for www.onorca.dev; configure its Next/Vercel proxy with these beforeFiles rewrites, replacing DOCS_ORIGIN with the docs project's production URL:

return {
  beforeFiles: [
    {
      source: '/docs',
      destination: `${DOCS_ORIGIN}/docs`
    },
    {
      source: '/docs/:path*',
      destination: `${DOCS_ORIGIN}/docs/:path*`
    },
    {
      source: '/docs-static/:path*',
      destination: `${DOCS_ORIGIN}/docs-static/:path*`
    }
  ]
}

/docs-static is the docs zone's assetPrefix; it prevents _next asset collisions with the marketing zone. Keep the rewrites in the default zone and use ordinary <a> links when navigating between zones. Do not add basePath: '/docs' to this app: its route tree and Fumadocs baseUrl already include /docs, so doing so would publish /docs/docs/... URLs. If a future deployment needs basePath, first move the route tree to an unprefixed src/app/[[...slug]] shape and update every generated/link URL together.

Deploy (Vercel)

1. Create a Vercel project with Root Directory unset (.). The workflow invokes Vercel from docs/site, so that directory is already the deployment root; setting it again would resolve docs/site/docs/site. Leave automatic Git deployments disabled so this workflow remains the only deployment path.
2. Framework preset: Next.js. Use pnpm --ignore-workspace install --frozen-lockfile for install and pnpm --ignore-workspace build for build; this package has its own lockfile beside the root workspace.
3. Set GitHub Actions secrets (required by the production deploy job):
   • VERCEL_TOKEN
   • VERCEL_ORG_ID
   • VERCEL_PROJECT_ID (docs project, not the marketing site)
4. Protect the docs-production GitHub environment with required reviewers and custom deployment branch policies for main and v* tags. The release-cut dispatch runs from main; the direct published-release fallback runs from a stable tag, while the workflow still authorizes only exact stable tags.
5. Prepare the three rewrites above in the www.onorca.dev marketing project, but leave them disabled until the docs deployment is verified. A Vercel custom domain cannot delegate only /docs by itself; the default zone must proxy both page/API/media requests and /docs-static assets. Keep the marketing project's old docs routes available for rollback during the transition; putting the proxy rules in beforeFiles ensures they win once enabled.
6. Deploy a stable desktop tag that contains docs/site, verify the docs origin, then enable the marketing rewrites. Tags cut before this package was added cannot bootstrap the docs project because production intentionally checks out the tag's exact commit. Remove the old marketing docs routes in a follow-up after the proxy is stable.

.github/workflows/docs.yml runs credential-free checks for every pull request. It intentionally does not deploy PR previews: a PR-controlled build must not receive Vercel credentials. A maintainer can add a separate trusted preview workflow later. Production deploys only from an authorized stable desktop release: an exact vX.Y.Z tag, a published non-prerelease release, and the github-actions[bot] release author. Manual dispatch must run from the default branch and name an existing release that meets the same checks. Mobile, prerelease, draft, and human-authored releases are skipped. Fork pull requests remain build-only because GitHub does not expose deployment secrets to fork jobs.

Versioning

versioning.config.ts keeps the current unversioned /docs URLs stable while reserving content/versions/<id> for future snapshots. Versioned routes are not live yet; when they are needed, add the corresponding loader/routes and a version entry. The release workflow can then deploy them without a trigger change.

Isolation from the desktop app

• Own package.json + pnpm-lock.yaml under docs/site/
• Not listed in the root pnpm-workspace.yaml; install with pnpm --ignore-workspace
• Engineering notes remain in repo-root docs/ — do not confuse with this package