OnixByte Homepage

The official OnixByte site — the company front door. The technical blog and the open-source project documentation live in a separate repository, published at opensource.onixbyte.com and opensource.onixbyte.cn.

Tech Stack

A static site built with Rspress, supporting bilingual content (en-gb / zh-hans). All pages are authored in Markdown / MDX.

URLs

Domain	Recommended For
onixbyte.cn	Users in China mainland
onixbyte.com	Users outside China mainland

Traffic from mainland China is redirected from .com to .cn at the edge; see vercel.json. Local full-text search is built into Rspress v2 and needs no plugin — an index is emitted per locale at build time.

Requirements

• Node.js 24.x (see engines in package.json)
• pnpm 12.x — the package manager is pinned via the packageManager field

Local Development

pnpm install
pnpm dev        # Start dev server with HMR
pnpm build      # Production build for .com, outputs to doc_build/
pnpm build:com  # Explicit .com build (same as `build`)
pnpm build:cn   # Production build for .cn
pnpm preview    # Preview the production build locally
pnpm lint       # ESLint
pnpm typecheck  # TypeScript, no emit
pnpm format     # Prettier — format all files

Build Targets

The site is published on two domains, and the two builds are not interchangeable. pnpm build:cn runs rspress build --config rspress.cn.config.ts, which differs from the default in four ways:

	build:com	build:cn
Default language (unprefixed)	en-gb	zh-hans
Canonical, hreflang, og:url	onixbyte.com	onixbyte.cn
sitemap.xml, robots.txt	onixbyte.com	onixbyte.cn
Social links	GitHub, Douyin, X	GitHub, Douyin

The default language differs per target, so the routes do too. Rspress serves the default locale without a prefix:

	.com	.cn
English home	/	/en-gb/
Chinese home	/zh-hans/	/
English privacy	/legal/privacy	/en-gb/legal/privacy
Chinese privacy	/zh-hans/legal/privacy	/legal/privacy

Content paths under docs/ are unaffected — only the prefixes change, and Rspress rewrites internal links per locale automatically.

X is omitted from the .cn build because it is not reachable from mainland China. Which links count as domestic is a single list in rspress.config.ts (SOCIAL_LINKS) — move an entry between the two arrays to change a build.

Rspress ships preset icons for Weibo, Bilibili, Zhihu, Juejin, QQ and WeChat, but not for Douyin, and its preset registry cannot be extended from userland. Douyin's artwork is therefore supplied as inline SVG in theme/lib/social-icons.ts; see that file for the markup shape it must match.

robots.txt is written at build time by a small plugin rather than committed under docs/public/, because a single static file would carry the wrong origin for one of the two targets.

Both targets write to doc_build/. Build and deploy them one at a time; a second build overwrites the first. To preview the .cn variant in dev, run rspress dev --config rspress.cn.config.ts.

Directory Structure

docs/
├── public/              # Static assets served from the site root
│   └── onixbyte-*.svg
├── en-gb/               # English content
│   ├── _nav.json        # Top navigation; labels are i18n keys
│   ├── index.md         # Marketing homepage
│   ├── products/        # Products we run ourselves
│   ├── services/        # Custom engineering services
│   └── legal/           # Privacy policy and terms
└── zh-hans/             # Simplified Chinese content (mirrors en-gb exactly)

theme/                   # Custom Rspress theme
├── index.tsx            # Layout overrides and slot wiring
├── index.css            # Brand colours and section styling
├── lib/
│   ├── site.ts          # Shared site constants
│   ├── i18n.ts          # Types i18n.json for useI18n()
│   └── social-icons.ts  # Inline SVG for social links with no preset icon
└── components/
    ├── Author.tsx       # Byline, rendered from `author` frontmatter
    ├── Tags.tsx         # Tag list, rendered from `tags` frontmatter
    ├── Kbd.tsx          # Keyboard-shortcut primitive for MDX
    ├── SiteFooter.tsx   # Site-wide footer, injected via the Layout slot
    ├── HomeSections.tsx # Renders `frontmatter.sections`
    └── sections/        # The individual marketing band components

Navigation and sidebars

Navigation and sidebar structure are driven by JSON files next to the content, not by the theme:

• _nav.json controls the top navigation. Its text values are keys resolved through i18n.json, which is why the two locale files are identical.
• _meta.json controls sidebar grouping and ordering within a directory. Pages omitted from one are dropped from the sidebar, so keep it complete.

Do not add a _meta.json at the root of a locale directory — presence of both _nav.json and _meta.json at that level switches Rspress to a single flat sidebar and discards all the per-section ones.

Marketing sections

The homepage, /products/ and /services/ render optional bands declared in frontmatter under a sections key. Each band renders only when it has content, so an unfilled page degrades to its heading and intro rather than looking broken. Supported types are capabilities, advantages, contentGrid, cases and cta; see theme/components/sections/types.ts for their shapes.

theme/components/sections/placeholder.ts exposes a SHOW_COPY_PLACEHOLDERS flag that renders a labelled outline for empty bands while copy is being written. It must be false in anything released.

Deployment

Two targets, each built separately:

• onixbyte.com — built with pnpm build:com, deployed to Vercel from doc_build/.
• onixbyte.cn — built with pnpm build:cn, rsynced from doc_build/ to the server behind that domain.

There is currently no CI automation in this repository; both are run by hand. Since the two builds share the doc_build/ output directory, run the build for a target immediately before deploying it.

The server behind onixbyte.cn needs a try_files rule resolving extensionless paths ({path} {path}.html {path}/index.html) — the sitemap and canonical URLs are extensionless, and without it every one of them 404s on that host.

vercel.json still carries redirects for the retired /projects/ paths, and they now point at /opensource-projects/, which this site no longer serves — they need repointing or removing. The removed /blogs/, /opensource-projects/ and /notifications/ URLs are likewise unredirected and will 404; the new site is reachable from the top navigation instead. The .cn host needs the equivalent rules in its own web server config, which is not tracked in this repository.

Contributing

This repository is not open for external contributions — pull requests are not accepted. Issues reporting broken links, factual errors, typos or reproducible bugs are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Licence

All rights reserved. Nothing here is licensed for reuse: no permission is granted to copy, modify or distribute any part of this repository. Reading it and linking to it are fine. See LICENCE for the full notice, and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md for the dependencies, which keep their own licences.