Elevio KB JavaScript starter

This repo provides a basis for your custom Elevio KB.

Quick Start Guide

The best place to start is the Quick Start Guide.

Installation

git clone git@github.com:dixahq/kb-javascript-starter.git

settings.json file

This file gives you control over certain features in your Knowledge Base.

For detailed information on settings.json please visit our documentation: ClientSettings and the Quick Start Guide

You must ensure that you fill in an accountId in your settings.json file or the command line interface will fail when you try npm run start:

> npm run start
>
> @elevio/kb-javascript-starter@0.2.9 start
> elevio-kb dev

fetching settings
Missing company UID header

You can easily get your accountId from app.elev.io/account

.env

When you want to work on a KB you will also need to create a .env file in its repo. This file is git ignored so you will have to create it for each KB you work on.

There is an example .env file named .env.example in the root dir.

To get the TOKEN you you will need to log into HQ as the account of the company you want to publish a KB for. Then visit the URL https://app.elev.io/token and grab the Permanent key.

Deploying / Previewing

Saving a version

See Deployment for more details

When you want to save a version of the KB you are working on to see it working on production you can run the following command.

npm run save

Make sure you run this from inside the directory containing the KB.

It will print out link that you can use to preview this version.

Deploying a version

Once you are happy with the version you have previewed you can then set that version to be the live version by running the command

npm run deploy

It will ask you to select a saved version.