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Add Chat Button to Docusaurus

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Integrate Inkeep's chat button into your Docusaurus documentation for real-time user assistance.

What is Docusaurus

Docusaurus is an open-source documentation platform powered by MDX and React.

Get an API key

Follow these steps to create an API key for your web assistant.

Install the Inkeep plugin

Define the widget

Add the chat button as a plugin in your docusaurus.config.js file:

docusaurus.config.js
plugins: ["@inkeep/cxkit-docusaurus"],

Configuration settings

You have two configuration options:

  1. Configure the widget in the plugin options. Use this option if you are loading your apiKey from an environment variable, see here for more information.
  2. Configure the widget in standalone config. Use this option if you are using any callback functions (like transformSource, onEvent, or getTools) in your config.

These options can also be used together and the settings will be merged automatically.

Configure the widget in the plugin options

Docusaurus plugins can accept a tuple of [pluginName, options].

In this case, the plugin name is @inkeep/cxkit-docusaurus.

Note that if you are using any callback functions (like transformSource, onEvent, or getTools) in your config, you will need to use the standalone config to pass those settings.

So use like this:

Note
Note

You will need to replace REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_INKEEP_API_KEY with your actual Inkeep API key in the code below.

docusaurus.config.js
plugins: [
  ["@inkeep/cxkit-docusaurus", {
    ChatButton: {
      baseSettings: {
        // see https://docusaurus.io/docs/deployment#using-environment-variables to use docusaurus environment variables
        apiKey: "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_INKEEP_API_KEY", // required - replace with your own API key
        primaryBrandColor: "#26D6FF", // required -- your brand color, the widget color scheme is derived from this
        organizationDisplayName: "Inkeep",
        // ...optional settings
        theme: {
          // optional path to a custom stylesheet
          styles: [
            {
              key: "main",
              type: "link",
              value: "/path/to/stylesheets",
            },
          ],
          syntaxHighlighter: {
            lightTheme: lightCodeTheme, // optional -- pass in the Prism theme you're using
            darkTheme: darkCodeTheme, // optional -- pass in the Prism theme you're using
          },
        }
      },
      modalSettings: {
        // optional settings
      },
      searchSettings: {
        // optional settings
      },
      aiChatSettings: {
        // optional settings
        aiAssistantAvatar: "/img/logo.svg", // optional -- use your own AI assistant avatar
        exampleQuestions: [
          "Example question 1?",
          "Example question 2?",
          "Example question 3?",
        ],
      },
    }
  }],
],

Configure the widget in standalone config

In this case, the plugin name is @inkeep/cxkit-docusaurus/chatButton.

What this means is that you create a config file in your project. By default, you can create an inkeep.config.js or inkeep.config.ts file in the root of your project, and Inkeep will automatically pick it up.

inkeep.config.js
window.inkeepConfig = {
  ChatButton: {
    // ...options
  },
};

You can customize the path to the config file in the plugin options:

docusaurus.config.js
plugins: [
  ["@inkeep/cxkit-docusaurus", { config: "./path/to/my-inkeep-config.js" }],
],

We also export a fully typed defineConfig function that you can use to create your config:

For a full list of customizations, check out the Common Settings.

FAQ

We support docusaurus versions 2.0.1 and above.

Our plugin swizzles the SearchBar component. If you have a plugin that also swizzles the SearchBar component, you need to ensure that plugin comes after our plugin in your docusaurus.config.js file. This way, your custom SearchBar will override our default one.

To add custom styles to the Inkeep widget in your Docusaurus site, first create a CSS file in your static directory (e.g. static/inkeep-overrides.css). Then specify the URL of the stylesheet in the styles array within the theme object (inside of baseSettings).

For example, if you created a file at static/inkeep-overrides.css, you should set the styles array to:

theme: {
  styles: [
    {
      key: "main",
      type: "link",
      value: "/inkeep-overrides.css",
    },
  ],
},

For additional details on how Docusaurus manages static assets, please refer to the official documentation.

docusaurus.config.js
//..
  SearchBar: {
    // ... rest of your settings
    baseSettings: {
      // ... rest of your baseSettings
      theme: {
        styles: [
          {
            key: "main",
            type: "link",
            value: "/inkeep-overrides.css",
          },
        ],
      },
    },
},

If you need more control or customizations, you can use the React components directly. To do so, follow the react guides: chat button, search bar, embedded chat, custom modal trigger.

A few things to keep in mind:

  • If using Docusaurus 3.4.0 you will need to load the Inkeep widget component dynamically and wrap it in a <BrowserOnly> tag. For example:
import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react";
import BrowserOnly from "@docusaurus/BrowserOnly";
 
export default function Widget() {
  const [isOpen, setIsOpen] = useState(false);
  const [ModalSearchAndChat, setModalSearchAndChat] = useState(null);
 
  useEffect(() => {
    (async () => {
      const { InkeepModalSearchAndChat } = await import("@inkeep/cxkit-react");
      setModalSearchAndChat(() => InkeepModalSearchAndChat);
    })();
  }, []);
 
  const inkeepModalSearchAndChatProps = {
    baseSettings: {
      apiKey: "INKEEP_API_KEY", // required
      primaryBrandColor: "#26D6FF", // required -- your brand color, the widget color scheme is derived from this
      organizationDisplayName: "Inkeep",
    },
    modalSettings: {
      isOpen,
      onOpenChange: handleOpenChange,
    },
  };
  };
 
  return (
    <>
      <button
        type="button"
        onClick={() => {
          setIsOpen(true);
        }}
      >
        Ask AI
      </button>
      <BrowserOnly fallback={<div />}>
        {() => {
          return (
            ModalSearchAndChat && <ModalSearchAndChat {...inkeepModalSearchAndChatProps} />
          );
        }}
      </BrowserOnly>
    </>
  );
}
  • If using the ChatButton component, you can create a Footer.js in the themes directory then import the original Footer component and add the Chat Button so that it will be present on each page. For example:
import Footer from "@theme-original/Footer";
import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react";
import BrowserOnly from "@docusaurus/BrowserOnly";
 
export default function FooterWrapper(props) {
  const [ChatButton, setChatButton] = useState(null);
 
  useEffect(() => {
    (async () => {
      const { InkeepChatButton } = await import("@inkeep/cxkit-react");
      setChatButton(() => InkeepChatButton);
    })();
  }, []);
 
  const InkeepChatButtonProps = {
    baseSettings: {
      apiKey: "INKEEP_API_KEY", // required
      primaryBrandColor: "#26D6FF", // required -- your brand color, the widget color scheme is derived from this
      organizationDisplayName: "Inkeep",
    },
  };
 
  return (
    <>
      <BrowserOnly fallback={<div />}>
        {() => {
          return ChatButton && <ChatButton {...InkeepChatButtonProps} />;
        }}
      </BrowserOnly>
      <Footer {...props} />
    </>
  );
}
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