starlight VS lithium

Startlight

There are many excellent tools to choose from, such as Docusaurus, Nextra, VitePress, Docus, and others. Previously, I had a great experience building a documentation website with Starlight, so it was my choice for this task. However, I discovered a missing feature: the ability to generate a PDF from the documentation. And it was one of the requirements. "Sounds like a nice side project," I thought for myself.

Astro Starlight is a specialized theme for creating documentation websites. It's built on top of Astro, a modern web framework. It offers a set of features specifically designed for technical documentation while also benefiting from Astro's speed and performance.

Next, you build the site.\ Since SEO is a priority, server-side rendering (SSR) is a must. There's a lot of talk about Google being able to parse JavaScript, but that's mostly nonsense. Sometimes it can, but it generally hates doing so, so don’t risk it. You could use a heavy SSR setup for React or Angular, but we went with astro.build—super fast, simple, and elegant. They have plenty of free and complex themes, but we settled on their Starlight theme after tweaking the home page a bit (you need to copy the Hero.astro component and override Head.astro).

There are a lot of these documentation-geared SSGs. I've tried a few and Starlight is what rang least annoying of the bunch. No library lock-in, a sane theme, client-side search, a much smaller dependency tree than many, and quite fast to build.

https://starlight.astro.build/

Astro is awesome. It’s easy enough to get started with a template for a static site and flexible enough to build dynamic web apps.

My static personal site is Astro hosted on cloudflare pages https://github.com/ShaunLawrie/shaunlawrie.com

And I used their documentation template https://starlight.astro.build/ for my autogenerated docs on https://pwshspectreconsole.com/

I love having the ability to focus on the content and never having any blockers if I want to do something weird like embed a prebuilt react component for some edge cases.

Integrating live code editors within docs and tutorials is great.

Another example I saw recently using SQLite (compiled to Wasm) in the browser: https://docs.sqlitecloud.io/docs/sqlite

And if you ever want something similar for more general backend APIs (without relying on Wasm or the browser to run the software), https://codapi.org/ looks very slick e.g. as demonstrated in https://antonz.org/sql-upsert/

We ended up building a fairly bespoke setup for XTDB's docs (XTDB doesn't yet compile to Wasm) shortly before I came across Codapi, although our requirements were even more particular, e.g. see https://docs.xtdb.com/tutorials/financial-usecase/time-in-fi... - the backend here is https://github.com/xtdb/xt-fiddle which runs purely on top of Lambda Snapstart, and embedded within https://starlight.astro.build/ using Web Components

I've rewritten this website, my partner's website, my university rugby club's website. I'm moving my Applied Genomics course website to Starlight, the Astro team's documentation framework. The nf-core site has been rewritten in Astro and Svelte from PHP. I'm all in.

Lithium: General performance boost. (not updated)

For Minecraft specifically, regardless of hardware and OS, you should be using Sodium and Lithium. These are third-party mods that fix a ton of performance issues - they make a huge impact especially on lower-spec'd machines.

i can confirm what mrspinn has posted but I would use rubidium and not magnesium(both ports of sodium, just a different authors on the ports.), this works with magnesium/rubidium extras as well for things like a better zoom function(runs off the sodium base so both ports are fine). Then if you'd like shaders with this you can use oculus(port of iris), this works with optifine shader packs. Road runner is good for cleaning up a lot of the overhead in things like game physics, AI, block ticking, etc (port of lithium, don't know why this one didn't keep the chemical name). Starlight again is good at what it does, even to the point of being integrated into papermc(which is why it's on their github and not the spottedleaf's personal anymore), don't know if you've sent much time around plugin servers. I also then use Ferritecore this greatly helps bring down memory requirements of the pack(I can run on 4gb, given I have fairly fast memory).

Lithium (further optimization, also by Sodium devs)

Sodium Phosphor Lithium also get iris but I don't have download link

Here’s a page on the config file if you want more info:github.com/CaffeineMC/lithium-fabric/wiki/Configuration-File

Are you using Optifine? That's the largest contributor to graphical issues. Instead, try Sodium and Lithium.

It's just that. It's a free and open source optimization mod that aims to improve fps, and fixes other issues. Along with that, Sodium is free and open source (available on GitHub). By default, Sodium does not provide shader support, and shader support can be done with Iris (Iris is also open source and free as well). But if you want to optimize your fps even more, you can bring in Lithium and Starlight (Lithium targets overall optimization, like the AI and other stuff without breaking the game, and Starlight is a complete rewrite of the vanilla lighting engine to be even more faster and fixes so much stuff with the lighting engine). And you can tack on more mods, like FerriteCore, Enchaned Block Entities (EBE) in order to optimize other parts of the game

Lithium v0.7.6