So my app is almost complete… final piece is the help section.
So we are talking a lot of text, images, and links, broken into some kind of searchable structure (Category, Sub Category, Topic, Help Content, Also See, etc).
How would you recommend I build and work with this content?
As SQL data?
As JSON?
Another way?
Would love to hear everyone’s ideas!
Best wishes,
Antony.
You can think of the help section as any other section with articles on your site - blog, articles, news.
So you can store everything in a database and filter this data and display it on the pages.
Another option would be a service like gitbook: https://www.gitbook.com/
Thank you @Teodor, I’ll check that out!
Does anyone else have experience of the pros and cons of Gitbook?
@JonL, I had been thinking about the way you created you created your i18n data and stored it in JSON, and whether this is a good option for doing a help section which is within the app… as I sense gitbook will be in a separate url outside of the app…
You seemed to believe that storing a lot of app text was better done in JSON than in the database…
@Teodor, thank you so much… I’d never heard of gitbook, but I’ve just tried it out for an hour and I’m hooked! 