Introducing the Docusaurus plugin

Markprompt chatbots are increasingly being used in documentation sites, in order to make it easy for users to ask questions to docs. Docusaurus is a popular way to build documentation sites, as it abstracts away technicalities, so that writers can focus on content and not on setup.

With the newly released @markprompt/docusaurus-theme-search plugin, it is possible to include a chatbot with just a couple of lines of code.

To get started, install the plugin via NPM:

npm install @markprompt/docusaurus-theme-search

and enable the plugin the in your docusaurus.config.js:

const config = {
  // …

  themes: [
    // …
    '@markprompt/docusaurus-theme-search',
  ],

  themeConfig:
    {
      markprompt: {
        projectKey: 'YOUR-MARKPROMPT-KEY',
      },
    },
};

That's it! Now, a chatbot icon will appear at the bottom right of your site, enabling users to ask questions to your docs.

Note that if your Docusaurus project already has a search plugin, such as theme-search-algolia, you need to swizzle the current search plugin, and add Markprompt as a standalone component. This is straightforward to do, and we explain how to do it here: Markprompt with swizzling

You can read more about the Docusaurus plugin on the GitHub repository for the project, or in the Markprompt docs.