@rawsql-ts/ddl-docs-vitepress

A scaffold generator for VitePress-based database schema documentation sites.

This package provides the ddl-docs-vitepress init command, which creates a ready-to-use project template that:

• reads SQL files from ddl/
• generates Markdown docs via @rawsql-ts/ddl-docs-cli
• serves/builds a VitePress site from docs/

Generated project structure

my-db-docs/
├── .github/workflows/deploy-docs.yml   # GitHub Pages deploy workflow
├── .gitignore
├── ddl/.gitkeep                        # Place your .sql files here
├── docs/
│   ├── index.md
│   └── .vitepress/
│       ├── config.mts
│       └── theme/
│           ├── custom.css
│           └── index.ts
├── package.json
└── scripts/run-generate.cjs            # Calls ddl-docs-cli to generate Markdown

Create a scaffold project

npx @rawsql-ts/ddl-docs-vitepress init my-db-docs
cd my-db-docs
npm install

Safe-by-default init behavior

• If target directory does not exist: scaffold is created.
• If target directory exists and is empty: scaffold is created.
• If target directory exists and is not empty: command fails by default.
• Use --force to overwrite template paths in a non-empty directory.
• --force is overwrite-only. It does not remove non-template files.
• Use --force --clean to remove non-template files before scaffolding.

npx @rawsql-ts/ddl-docs-vitepress init existing-dir --force
npx @rawsql-ts/ddl-docs-vitepress init existing-dir --force --clean

Warning: --clean removes non-template files and directories in the target path.

Help

npx @rawsql-ts/ddl-docs-vitepress --help
npx @rawsql-ts/ddl-docs-vitepress help
npx @rawsql-ts/ddl-docs-vitepress init --help

Use the generated scaffold project

In the generated project:

1. Put your .sql files under ddl/. The build script applies --filter-pg-dump automatically, so pg_dump output can be used directly — statements such as SET, ALTER ... OWNER TO, and SELECT pg_catalog.* are filtered out before parsing.
2. Start local development:

npm run dev

3. Build static docs:

npm run build

4. Preview the built site:

npm run preview

GitHub Pages deployment

The scaffold includes .github/workflows/deploy-docs.yml which automatically builds and deploys docs to GitHub Pages on pushes to main that touch ddl/ or docs/.vitepress/. The workflow sets VITEPRESS_BASE from the repository name.

To enable it, go to your repository's Settings > Pages and set the source to GitHub Actions.

VITEPRESS_BASE for subpath hosting

The scaffold template uses process.env.VITEPRESS_BASE ?? '/' in docs/.vitepress/config.mts. Set VITEPRESS_BASE when deploying under a subpath (for example GitHub Pages):

VITEPRESS_BASE=/my-repo/ npm run build

Scripts in this package (maintainer note)

In packages/ddl-docs-vitepress itself:

• pnpm build compiles this CLI package with tsc.
• It does not build the generated VitePress docs site.