The site already ships both languages, but / always served Chinese, so
English readers had to find the switcher themselves. A Chinese browser now
stays on /, everything else lands on /en.
The decision runs as an inline script in index.html, next to the existing
theme anti-flash block: deferring it to React would show English readers a
full screen of Chinese first. It only fires on the root path — /en, /start
and /en/start are deliberate destinations, and redirecting those would kick
readers off any cross-language link they follow. A manual switch is stored
in localStorage and wins over the browser language, otherwise switching
would be undone on the next visit to the home page.
resolveRootRedirect carries the same rules as a testable pure function.
check-docs asserts the inline copy and the module agree on the storage key,
the Chinese tag pattern and the root-only guard, so the two cannot drift.
The site had drifted from the product. Every screenshot predated the
v0.5.0 UI redesign, the reading experience shipped no search and no
syntax highlighting, and a third of the pages were internal process
artefacts — migration task lists addressed to agentic workers, a
release runbook, a proposal marked "historical".
Reorganise around the only two people who read this: someone getting
the desktop app running for the first time, and someone reading the
source. Five sections replace nine — start / desktop / im / cli /
internals — and the pages that served neither reader are gone.
Site rewrite:
- Palette lifted from the desktop app's 「纸·墨·印」 themes, so the
site and the product read as one thing. Light mirrors 纯白, dark
mirrors 墨夜, and dark mode exists at all now.
- Fonts are self-hosted. The old @import from Google Fonts is
unreachable from mainland China, which left every heading in a
fallback serif; it also only requested weight 600 while the CSS
asked for 900, so Latin and CJK in the same heading disagreed.
- Docs were shipped as one 968KB manifest downloaded on every page
view. Split into a 32KB index plus one lazily imported chunk per
page; the entry bundle is now 101KB gzipped.
- Add search, syntax highlighting, per-route meta with canonical and
hreflang, a sitemap, and an error boundary. Replace the 44vh
mobile sidebar with a drawer.
- Image dimensions are read at build time and written into the tag,
so lazy images reserve their space instead of collapsing.
Screenshots are recaptured from a real v0.5.0 build against a clean
demo project, with tokens, QR codes and paired accounts redacted.
The previous set is deleted rather than kept alongside.
Routes follow file paths, so the restructure would have broken every
inbound link; 37 old paths redirect, in both languages. The PR policy
gate and CODEOWNERS also hardcoded docs/guide/contributing.md.
Verified: check:docs 78 pages / 323 links / 0 problems, check:policy
127 pass. Walked every route at 1440 and 390 in both themes for
overflow, contrast, keyboard reachability and focus management.
The svg icon is only a wrapper around app-icon.png, and the nested
reference is invisible to the static copy step, so the image stayed
invisible on production even after the svg itself deployed.
- rebuild home and docs UI around serif display type, warm paper,
and a single vermilion accent
- rewrite zh/en landing copy around user value
- fix white screen on the last docs page (adjacent-doc out of bounds)
- curate sidebar labels and add TOC scroll-spy
