Quickstart

Start building awesome documentation in under five minutes

Setup your development

Learn how to update your docs locally and and deploy them to the public.

Edit and preview

Clone your docs locally

During the onboarding process, we created a repository on your Github with your docs content. You can find this repository on our dashboard. To clone the repository locally, follow these instructions in your terminal.

Preview changes

Previewing helps you make sure your changes look as intended. We built a command line interface to render these changes locally. 1. Install the Mintlify CLI to preview the documentation changes locally with this command: npm i -g mintlify 2. Run the following command at the root of your documentation (where mint.json is): mintlify dev

Deploy your changes

Install our Github app

Our Github app automatically deploys your changes to your docs site, so you don’t need to manage deployments yourself. You can find the link to install on your dashboard. Once the bot has been successfully installed, there should be a check mark next to the commit hash of the repo.

Push your changes

Commit and push your changes to Git for your changes to update in your docs site. If you push and don’t see that the Github app successfully deployed your changes, you can also manually update your docs through our dashboard.

Update your docs

Add content directly in your files with MDX syntax and React components. You can use any of our components, or even build your own.

Style Your Docs

Add flair to your docs with personalized branding.

Add API Endpoints

Implement your OpenAPI spec and enable API user interaction.

Integrate Analytics

Draw insights from user interactions with your documentation.

Host on a Custom Domain

Keep your docs on your own website’s subdomain.