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Config

December 3, 2023About 5 min

Config

Site Config

base

  • Type: string

  • Default: /

  • Details:

    The base URL the site will be deployed at.

    You will need to set this if you plan to deploy your site under a sub path. It should always start and end with a slash. For example, if you plan to deploy your site to GitHub pages at https://foo.github.io/bar/, then you should set base to "/bar/".

    The base is automatically prepended to the URLs that start with / in other options, so you only need to specify it once. (Except for attrs of head)

    Notice that base should be an absolute URL pathname starting and ending with / .

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lang

  • Type: string

  • Default: en-US

  • Details:

    Language for the site.

    This will be the lang attribute of the <html> tag in the rendered HTML.

    This can be specified in different locales.

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title

  • Type: string

  • Default: ''

  • Details:

    Title for the site.

    This will be the suffix for all page titles, and displayed in the navbar in the default theme.

    This can be specified in different locales.

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description

  • Type: string

  • Default: ''

  • Details:

    Description for the site.

    This will be the content attribute of <meta name="description" /> tag in the rendered HTML, which will be overrode by the description field of page frontmatter.

    This can be specified in different locales.

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  • Type: HeadConfig[]

  • Default: []

  • Details:

    Extra tags to inject into the <head> tag in the rendered HTML.

    You can specify each tag in the form of [tagName, { attrName: attrValue }, innerHTML?].

    This can be specified in different locales.

    Notice that if the attrValue is a pathname, it will be kept as-is without prepending base automatically, so remember to prepend it manually if needed.

  • Example:

    To add a custom favicon:

export default {
  head: [['link', { rel: 'icon', href: '/images/logo.png' }]],
}

Rendered as：

<head>
  <link rel="icon" href="/images/logo.png" />
</head>

locales

Theme Config

theme

Bundler Config

bundler

  • Type: Bundler

  • Details:

    Set the bundler of your site.

    If this option is not set, the default bundler will be used:

    • With vuepress or vuepress-vite, the default bundler is vite.
    • With vuepress-webpack, the default bundler is webpack.

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Common Config

dest

  • Type: string

  • Default: `${sourceDir}/.vuepress/dist`

  • Details:

    Specify the output directory for vuepress build command.

temp

  • Type: string

  • Default: `${sourceDir}/.vuepress/.temp`

  • Details:

    Specify the directory for temporary files.

Warning

Since VuePress will load temp files during dev and build, the temp directory should be inside project root to resolve dependencies correctly.

cache

  • Type: string

  • Default: `${sourceDir}/.vuepress/.cache`

  • Details:

    Specify the directory for cache files.

public

debug

  • Type: boolean

  • Default: false

  • Details:

    Enable debug mode or not.

    This would be helpful for developers. Also, we are using debug package for debug logging, which can be enabled via DEBUG=vuepress* environment variable.

pagePatterns

  • Type: string[]

  • Default: ['**/*.md', '!.vuepress', '!node_modules']

  • Details:

    Specify the patterns of files you want to be resolved as pages. The patterns are relative to the source directory.

permalinkPattern

  • Type: string | null

  • Default: null

  • Details:

    Specify the pattern to generate permalink.

    This will be overrode by the permalinkPattern field of page frontmatter.

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Dev Config

host

  • Type: string

  • Default: '0.0.0.0'

  • Details:

    Specify the host to use for the dev server.

port

  • Type: number

  • Default: 8080

  • Details:

    Specify the port to use for the dev server.

open

  • Type: boolean

  • Default: false

  • Details:

    Whether to open the browser after dev-server had been started.

templateDev

  • Type: string

  • Default: '@vuepress/client/templates/dev.html'

  • Details:

    Specify the path of the HTML template to be used for dev.

Build Config

shouldPreload

  • Type: ((file: string, type: string) => boolean)) | boolean

  • Default: true

  • Details:

    A function to control what files should have <link rel="preload"> resource hints generated. Set to true or false to enable or disable totally.

    By default, only those files that are required by current page will be preloaded. So you can keep it true in most cases.

shouldPrefetch

  • Type: ((file: string, type: string) => boolean)) | boolean

  • Default: true

  • Details:

    A function to control what files should have <link rel="prefetch"> resource hints generated. Set to true or false to enable or disable for all files.

    If you set it to true, all files that required by other pages will be prefetched. This is good for small sites, which will speed up the navigation, but it might not be a good idea if you have lots of pages in your site.

templateBuild

  • Type: string

  • Default: '@vuepress/client/templates/build.html'

  • Details:

    Specify the path of the HTML template to be used for build.

templateBuildRenderer

  • Type: TemplateRenderer

  • Default: templateRenderer

  • Details:

    Specify the HTML template renderer to be used for build.

Markdown Config

markdown

markdown.anchor

  • Type: AnchorPluginOptions | false

  • Default:

const defaultOptions = {
  level: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
  permalink: anchorPlugin.permalink.headerLink({
    class: 'header-anchor',
    safariReaderFix: true,
  }),
}

markdown.assets

  • Type: AssetsPluginOptions | false

  • Details:

    Options for VuePress built-in markdown-it assets plugin.

    Set to false to disable this plugin.

Caution

You should not configure it unless you understand what it is for.

markdown.component

Caution

You should not configure it unless you understand what it is for.

markdown.emoji

markdown.frontmatter

Caution

You should not configure it unless you understand what it is for.

markdown.headers

  • Type: HeadersPluginOptions | false

  • Default:

const defaultOptions = {
  level: [2, 3],
}

markdown.importCode

markdown.importCode.handleImportPath

  • Type: (str: string) => string

  • Default: (str) => str

  • Details:

    A function to handle the import path of the import code syntax.

  • Type: LinksPluginOptions | false

  • Details:

    Options for VuePress built-in markdown-it links plugin.

    It will convert the tag of internal links to internalTag, and add extra attributes and icon to external links.

    Set to false to disable this plugin.

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  • Type: 'a' | 'RouteLink' | 'RouterLink'

  • Default: 'RouteLink'

  • Details:

    Tag for internal links.

    By default, this plugin will transform internal links to RouteLink.

  • Type: Record<string, string>

  • Default: { target: '_blank', rel: 'noopener noreferrer' }

  • Details:

    Additional attributes for external links.

markdown.sfc

Caution

You should not configure it unless you understand what it is for.

markdown.slugify

  • Type: (str: string) => string

  • Details:

    The default slugify function.

markdown.title

Caution

You should not configure it unless you understand what it is for.

markdown.toc

  • Type: TocPluginOptions | false

  • Default:

const defaultOptions = {
  level: [2, 3],
}

markdown.vPre.block

markdown.vPre.inline

Plugin Config

plugins

  • Type: (Plugin | Plugin[])[]

  • Details:

    Plugins to use.

    This option accepts an array, each item of which could be a plugin or an array of plugins.

  • Also see:

Plugin API

User config file also works as a VuePress plugin, so all of the Plugin APIs are available except the name and multiple options.

Please check out Plugin API Reference for a full list of Plugin APIs.