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App Configs

App configs are where you can define the global settings of the site. App configs define fundamental settings that are not only limited to the theme configs such as configuration for "base directory", or the "title" of the site.

export default {
  // These are app level configs.
  lang: 'en-US',
  title: 'VitePress',
  description: 'Vite & Vue powered static site generator.',
  ...
}

appearance

Type: boolean
Default: true

Whether to enable "Dark Mode" or not. If the option is set to true, it adds .dark class to the <html> tag depending on the users preference.

It also injects inline script that tries to read users settings from local storage by vitepress-theme-appearance key and restores users preferred color mode.

export default {
  appearance: true
}

base

Type: string
Default: /

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, for example, GitHub pages. If you plan to deploy your site to https://foo.github.io/bar/, then you should set base to '/bar/'. It should always start and end with a slash.

The base is automatically prepended to all the URLs that start with / in other options, so you only need to specify it once.

export default {
  base: '/base/'
}

description

Type: string
Default: A VitePress site

Description for the site. This will render as a <meta> tag in the page HTML.

export default {
  description: 'A VitePress site'
}

head

Type: HeadConfig[]
Default: []

Additional elements to render in the <head> tag in the page HTML. The user-added tags are rendered before the closing head tag, after VitePress tags.

export default {
  head: [
    ['link', { rel: 'preconnect', href: 'https://fonts.gstatic.com', crossorigin: '' }]
    // would render: <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin />
  ]
}

type HeadConfig =
  | [string, Record<string, string>]
  | [string, Record<string, string>, string]

ignoreDeadLinks

Type: boolean
Default: false

When set to true, VitePress will not fail builds due to dead links.

export default {
  ignoreDeadLinks: true
}

lang

Type: string
Default: en-US

The lang attribute for the site. This will render as a <html lang="en-US"> tag in the page HTML.

export default {
  lang: 'en-US'
}

lastUpdated

Type: boolean
Default: false

Use git commit to get the timestamp. This option enables the default theme to display the page's last updated time. You can customize the text via themeConfig.lastUpdatedText option.

export default {
  lastUpdated: true
}

markdown

Type: MarkdownOption

Configure Markdown parser options. VitePress uses Markdown-it as the parser, and Shiki to highlight language syntax. Inside this option, you may pass various Markdown related options to fit your needs.

export default {
  markdown: {
    theme: 'material-palenight',
    lineNumbers: true
  }
}

Below are all the options that you can have in this object:

interface MarkdownOptions extends MarkdownIt.Options {
  // Custom theme for syntax highlighting.
  // You can use an existing theme.
  // See: https://github.com/shikijs/shiki/blob/main/docs/themes.md#all-themes
  // Or add your own theme.
  // See: https://github.com/shikijs/shiki/blob/main/docs/themes.md#loading-theme
  theme?:
    | Shiki.IThemeRegistration
    | { light: Shiki.IThemeRegistration; dark: Shiki.IThemeRegistration }

  // Enable line numbers in code block.
  lineNumbers?: boolean

  // markdown-it-anchor plugin options.
  // See: https://github.com/valeriangalliat/markdown-it-anchor#usage
  anchor?: anchorPlugin.AnchorOptions

  // markdown-it-attrs plugin options.
  // See: https://github.com/arve0/markdown-it-attrs
  attrs?: {
    leftDelimiter?: string
    rightDelimiter?: string
    allowedAttributes?: string[]
    disable?: boolean
  }

  // @mdit-vue/plugin-frontmatter plugin options.
  // See: https://github.com/mdit-vue/mdit-vue/tree/main/packages/plugin-frontmatter#options
  frontmatter?: FrontmatterPluginOptions

  // @mdit-vue/plugin-headers plugin options.
  // See: https://github.com/mdit-vue/mdit-vue/tree/main/packages/plugin-headers#options
  headers?: HeadersPluginOptions

  // @mdit-vue/plugin-sfc plugin options.
  // See: https://github.com/mdit-vue/mdit-vue/tree/main/packages/plugin-sfc#options
  sfc?: SfcPluginOptions

  // @mdit-vue/plugin-toc plugin options.
  // See: https://github.com/mdit-vue/mdit-vue/tree/main/packages/plugin-toc#options
  toc?: TocPluginOptions

  // Configure the Markdown-it instance.
  config?: (md: MarkdownIt) => void
}

outDir

Type: string
Default: ./.vitepress/dist

The build output location for the site, relative to project root (docs folder if you're running vitepress build docs).

export default {
  outDir: '../public'
}

title

Type: string
Default: VitePress

Title for the site. This will be displayed in the nav bar. Also used as the suffix for all page titles unless titleTemplate is defined.

export default {
  title: 'VitePress'
}

titleTemplate

Type: string | boolean

The suffix for the title. For example, if you set title as VitePress and set titleTemplate as My Site, the html title becomes VitePress | My Site.

Set false to disable the feature. If the option is undefined, then the value of title option will be used.

export default {
  title: 'VitePress',
  titleTemplate: 'Vite & Vue powered static site generator'
}

cleanUrls (Experimental)

Type: 'disabled' | 'without-subfolders' | 'with-subfolders'
Default: 'disabled'

Allows removing trailing .html from URLs and, optionally, generating clean directory structure. Available modes:

Mode	Page	Generated Page	URL
`'disabled'`	`/foo.md`	`/foo.html`	`/foo.html`
`'without-subfolders'`	`/foo.md`	`/foo.html`	`/foo`
`'with-subfolders'`	`/foo.md`	`/foo/index.html`	`/foo`

::: warning

Enabling this may require additional configuration on your hosting platform. For it to work, your server must serve the generated page on requesting the URL (see above table) without a redirect.

:::

export default {
  cleanUrls: 'with-subfolders'
}

Build Hooks

VitePress build hooks allow you to add new functionality and behaviors to your website:

Sitemap
Search Indexing
PWA

transformHtml

Type: ( code: string, id: string, ctx: TransformContext ) => Awaitable<string | void>

transformHtml is a build hook to transform the content of each page before saving to disk (SSG).

::: warning Modifying the html content may cause hydration problems in runtime. :::

import { defineConfig } from 'vitepress'

export default defineConfig({
  /* other vitepress options */
  async transformHtml(code, id, context) {
  }
})

interface TransformContext {
  siteConfig: SiteConfig
  siteData: SiteData
  pageData: PageData
  title: string
  description: string
  head: HeadConfig[]
  content: string
}

buildEnd

Type: (siteConfig: SiteConfig) => Awaitable<void>

buildEnd is a build CLI hook, it will run after build (SSG) finish but before VitePress CLI process exits.

import { defineConfig } from 'vitepress'

export default defineConfig({
  /* other vitepress options */
  async buildEnd(siteConfig) {
  }
})

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