docs: vanilla guide, CLI reference, JSON-LD recipes + angular/webpack examples

[rubenmarcus]

Summary

Filling four gaps in the framework guides surfaced by reading them end-to-end:

New / Updated	Why
docs/vanilla.md (new, ~420 lines)	We had guides for 6 frameworks but nothing for the most basic case: a plain HTML site or hand-rolled JS using just the CLI. Now there's a first-class guide covering init / generate / check, Eleventy / Hugo / Jekyll flows, single-page sites, CI, widget injection, troubleshooting.
docs/cli.md (new, ~320 lines)	The 4 CLI commands (init, generate, check, report) were only mentioned in passing. This is the comprehensive reference: every flag, exit codes, formatted vs JSON output, framework auto-detection table, CI scripting patterns.
docs/json-ld.md (new, ~410 lines)	Each framework guide showed one generic WebSite schema. This consolidates reusable copy-paste recipes for FAQ, HowTo, Article/BlogPosting, Product, Recipe, Event, VideoObject, BreadcrumbList — each paired with the safe serializeJsonForHtml helper. Per-framework injection examples included.
docs/angular.md + docs/webpack.md	These two lacked the Deployment + Examples sections every other framework guide had. Added Vercel/Netlify/Cloudflare/etc. deployment snippets and 4 example recipes each (Blog, Docs Site, E-commerce, Marketing).
docs/README.md	Updated framework table with Vanilla row, added "Additional references" section linking to cli.md + json-ld.md, added Vanilla quick-start snippet next to the framework snippets.

Stats

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6 files changed, 1507 insertions(+)
```

• 3 brand-new docs: `vanilla.md`, `cli.md`, `json-ld.md`
• 2 expanded: `angular.md` (+155), `webpack.md` (+175)
• 1 updated for navigation: `README.md`

Test plan

• All examples use the safe `serializeJsonForHtml` helper for JSON-LD
• No literal U+2028/U+2029 chars in source (all use `\u2028` / `\u2029` escape syntax)
• CLI commands and flags verified against src/cli.ts
• Framework auto-detection table verified against src/core/detect.ts
• All Angular examples verified against src/plugins/angular.ts
• All Webpack examples verified against src/plugins/webpack.ts
• Manual: render via markserv locally — `bunx markserv docs/` at port 8765
• Manual: spot-check one JSON-LD recipe at https://validator.schema.org/

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Greptile Summary

This PR adds three new reference docs (cli.md, json-ld.md, vanilla.md), expands angular.md and webpack.md with Deployment and Examples sections, and syncs the Astro website (vanilla.mdx, json-ld.mdx, cli.mdx updates). It also fixes a pre-existing Svelte JSON-LD injection bug in vite.md (wrapping only the text content in {@html} instead of the whole <script> tag).

• New docs (cli.md, json-ld.md, vanilla.md): comprehensive CLI reference with framework auto-detection table, safe-serializer-paired JSON-LD recipes, and a full vanilla/static-site workflow guide including CI and deployment patterns.
• Angular/Webpack additions: Vercel/Netlify/Cloudflare/GitHub Pages deployment snippets and four Example recipes each (Blog, Docs, E-commerce, Marketing).
• Website sync: new MDX pages for Vanilla JS and JSON-LD Recipes, with updated navigation entries in astro.config.mjs; several previously-flagged inaccuracies (missing --out in deployment snippets, npx consistency, CLI-doesn't-load-config caveat) appear to have been addressed.

Confidence Score: 5/5

Documentation-only PR with no runtime code changes; safe to merge.

Previously flagged inaccuracies have been corrected in the current revision. The remaining findings are minor doc-clarity items: a misplaced import in one MDX file and a verify listing that shows an output file the default template doesn't generate.

No files require special attention for a merge decision.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
website/src/content/docs/features/cli.mdx	Adds report command docs and a caution aside about CLI not loading config; import { Aside } is placed mid-document instead of at the top as in all other MDX files in this PR.
docs/vanilla.md	New comprehensive guide; Step 3 verify listing includes schema.json but the Step 1 template intentionally omits schema generation.
docs/cli.md	New CLI reference; correctly documents that the standalone CLI does not load aeo.config.{ts,js}, with accurate framework auto-detection table.
docs/json-ld.md	New JSON-LD recipe catalog; uses correct escape-sequence form for U+2028/U+2029 and the idiomatic Svelte <svelte:head> injection pattern.
docs/angular.md	Adds Deployment and four Example sections; all postBuild calls verified against angular plugin source.
docs/webpack.md	Adds Deployment and four Example sections; webpack config examples consistent with AeoWebpackPlugin API.
website/src/content/docs/features/json-ld.mdx	New MDX page; imports correctly placed at the top; condensed recipe catalog with per-framework injection tab panel.
website/src/content/docs/frameworks/vanilla.mdx	New MDX page; caution aside correctly warns about CLI flag-only configuration; postbuild snippet includes all required flags.
website/astro.config.mjs	Adds two sidebar nav entries matching the new MDX files; no issues.
docs/vite.md	One-line fix: Svelte JSON-LD injection now correctly uses {@html} only for text content.
docs/README.md	Adds Vanilla row, additional references section, and quick-start snippet; all links resolve to new files in this PR.

Prompt To Fix All With AI

Fix the following 2 code review issues. Work through them one at a time, proposing concise fixes.

---

### Issue 1 of 2
website/src/content/docs/features/cli.mdx:72-74
`import` statement placed mid-document instead of at the top. Every other MDX file added in this PR (`json-ld.mdx` line 6, `vanilla.mdx` line 3) places imports immediately after the frontmatter block. While MDX v2 technically hoists imports, mixing the import with section prose makes the file harder to maintain and is inconsistent with the repo's own convention.

```suggestion
import { Aside } from '@astrojs/starlight/components';

## Configuration file
```

### Issue 2 of 2
docs/vanilla.md:120-126
`schema.json` appears in the `ls` output but the Step 1 template intentionally omits `generators.schema: true` (the callout on line 80 says so explicitly). A user who follows Steps 1–2 verbatim will not see `schema.json` in their output, making this verify listing misleading. Removing it from the example (or marking it as optional) prevents confusion.

```suggestion
robots.txt
llms.txt
llms-full.txt
sitemap.xml
ai-index.json
docs.json
# schema.json  ← only present when generators.schema: true is set in config
```

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[claude]

🔴 The Framework auto-detection table contradicts the actual implementation in src/core/detect.ts. Detection is based on package.json dependencies, not config files in the cwd — so a project with next.config.ts but no next dep is detected as unknown, and a project with next in deps but no config file is detected as next. Webpack is also not detected at all (no case in detectFramework), and Remix/SvelteKit/Docusaurus are detected but missing from the table.

Extended reasoning...

What the bug is

docs/cli.md (lines 263–277) presents this table:

Framework	Detected via
Next.js	next.config.{js,mjs,ts}
Astro	astro.config.{mjs,ts}
Nuxt	nuxt.config.{js,mjs,ts}
Vite	vite.config.{js,mjs,ts}
Angular	angular.json
Webpack	webpack.config.{js,mjs,ts}
Static / vanilla	None of the above

The introduction above the table says "generate and check detect your framework by looking for telltale files in the cwd". This is wrong on every row. The PR's own test plan claims this was verified against src/core/detect.ts — but the implementation says the opposite.

The actual implementation

src/core/detect.ts (detectFramework) calls readPackageJson(projectRoot), merges dependencies + devDependencies, and matches on dependency names:

Dep present	Detected as
next	next
nuxt or @nuxt/kit	nuxt
astro or @astrojs/astro	astro
@remix-run/dev	remix
@sveltejs/kit	sveltekit
@angular/core	angular
@docusaurus/core	docusaurus
vite	vite
(none of the above)	unknown

The function never calls fs.existsSync, never globs *.config.{js,mjs,ts}, and never reads angular.json or webpack.config.*. None of those filenames appear anywhere in the file.

Step-by-step proof

Consider a project at /myapp containing:

/myapp/next.config.ts
/myapp/package.json   →  { "dependencies": { "react": "18.0.0" } }   // no "next" dep

1. User runs npx aeo.js check in /myapp.
2. The CLI calls detectFramework('/myapp').
3. readPackageJson returns { dependencies: { react: '18.0.0' } }.
4. dependencies['next'] is undefined → first branch is skipped.
5. Every subsequent branch is also undefined (no nuxt/astro/remix/sveltekit/angular/docusaurus/vite deps).
6. Function falls through to the final return { framework: 'unknown', contentDir: 'src', outDir: 'dist' }.
7. The user sees Framework: unknown — directly contradicting the docs, which promise Next.js because next.config.ts exists.

The reverse case is just as broken: a project with "next": "14.0.0" in package.json but no next.config.* file will be detected as next, also contradicting the table.

Other issues in the same section

• Webpack has no case in detectFramework. A webpack-only project always returns framework: 'unknown'. The table promises it as its own detected framework.
• Remix, SvelteKit, and Docusaurus are detected by detectFramework but are missing from the table entirely.
• The fallback returns framework: 'unknown', not static (and FrameworkType in src/types.ts has no static or vanilla member). The "Static / vanilla" row implies a framework value that doesn't exist.
• cli.md line 96 also lists "Next.js, Astro, Nuxt, Vite, Angular, Webpack, or static" as detected values. Same issues: Webpack and static aren't real framework values; Remix/SvelteKit/Docusaurus are missing.
• vanilla.md shows a sample check output with Framework: static — that string is never emitted; the actual fallback is unknown.

Impact

Users debugging detection ("why is my Next.js project showing as unknown?") will follow the docs and check for next.config.*, when the real fix is npm install next or — for webpack projects — accepting that detection won't work at all and they need to set outDir manually. The PR test plan literally says this table was verified against detect.ts; that verification didn't happen.

How to fix

Rewrite the table to reflect dep-based detection, and add the missing frameworks. Concretely:

Framework	Detected via dependency
Next.js	next
Nuxt	nuxt or @nuxt/kit
Astro	astro or @astrojs/astro
Remix	@remix-run/dev
SvelteKit	@sveltejs/kit
Angular	@angular/core
Docusaurus	@docusaurus/core
Vite	vite
(anything else)	unknown (defaults: contentDir: 'src', outDir: 'dist')

Update the intro paragraph to say "reads package.json dependencies" instead of "looks for telltale files in the cwd". Drop Webpack from this table (or add a note that webpack projects fall through to unknown — there's no @webpack dep to check for). Reconcile cli.md line 96 and the Framework: static sample in vanilla.md with the actual FrameworkType union.

[claude]

🔴 The sample 'aeo.js check' output in docs/vanilla.md shows Framework: static, but the CLI never prints that string. src/cli.ts:204 interpolates framework.framework from detectFramework(), and the no-match return path in src/core/detect.ts:75-79 is { framework: 'unknown', ... } — also, static is not in the FrameworkType union in src/types.ts. The same doc's Troubleshooting section even confirms this ("CLI says 'Unknown framework' — That's expected"). Fix: change Framework: static to Framework: unknown in the sample at lines 205-212.

Extended reasoning...

What's wrong\n\nThe new docs/vanilla.md (lines 205-212) shows the output a vanilla user should expect from npx aeo.js check:\n\n\n[aeo.js] AEO Configuration Check\n────────────────────────────────────────\n Framework: static\n Output dir: public\n ...\n\n\nBut static is never a value the CLI can print for that field.\n\nWhy the printed value is actually unknown\n\nIn src/cli.ts:204, the check command prints:\n\nts\nconsole.log(` Framework: ${framework.framework}`);\n\n\nwhere framework is the return value of detectFramework() from src/core/detect.ts. For a project that doesn't match any recognized dependency (the vanilla case), that function falls through to:\n\nts\nreturn {\n framework: 'unknown',\n contentDir: 'src',\n outDir: 'dist',\n};\n\n\n(src/core/detect.ts:75-79). There is no code path in detect.ts that ever returns 'static'. The FrameworkType union in src/types.ts confirms this — the valid values are 'next' | 'vite' | 'nuxt' | 'astro' | 'remix' | 'sveltekit' | 'angular' | 'docusaurus' | 'vanilla' | 'unknown'. No 'static'.\n\nInternal contradiction in the same file\n\nFurther down in the same doc, the Troubleshooting section explicitly says:\n\n> ### CLI says "Unknown framework"\n> That's expected — you're not using one. The CLI defaults to a generic static-site flow, which is exactly what you want here.\n\nSo the doc tells the reader at lines 205-212 to expect static, and again near the bottom tells the same reader to expect Unknown (i.e. unknown). Only the latter is right.\n\nStep-by-step proof\n\n1. A vanilla user follows the guide: creates an HTML site, runs npx aeo.js check.\n2. cli.ts calls detectFramework(process.cwd()).\n3. No next.config.*, astro.config.*, nuxt.config.*, vite.config.*, angular.json, or webpack.config.* dependency matches — detect.ts falls through to the final return { framework: 'unknown', ... } at lines 75-79.\n4. cli.ts:204 interpolates ${framework.framework} → prints Framework: unknown.\n5. User compares to the doc's sample (Framework: static), sees a mismatch, and likely files a 'detection broken' bug — even though detection is working exactly as intended.\n\nImpact\n\nLow-severity but user-visible: a sample shown to first-time vanilla users does not match the actual CLI output, and it self-contradicts the same doc's later troubleshooting blurb. Likely to cause spurious bug reports and damages doc credibility on the primary user-facing example for the vanilla flow.\n\nFix\n\nIn docs/vanilla.md at line 208, change:\n\n\n Framework: static\n\n\nto:\n\n\n Framework: unknown\n\n\nThat aligns with what detectFramework() actually returns and matches the doc's own Troubleshooting section.

[claude]

🔴 The new docs/cli.md and docs/vanilla.md files repeatedly promise that the CLI auto-discovers and loads aeo.config.ts/aeo.config.js (with CLI flags overriding config values) — but the CLI does not implement that. A user who follows the documented workflow (init → edit aeo.config.ts → generate) will silently get default values (My Site, https://example.com) regardless of what they wrote in the config, while check even prints Config file: found to reinforce the false belief. Fix is to either rewrite these sections to flags-only (with the programmatic API as the escape hatch for stored config), or ship a config loader before the docs land.

Extended reasoning...

What's wrong

docs/cli.md (introduced by this PR) makes two explicit, false claims about CLI behavior:

1. In the generate walkthrough (step 2): "Reads aeo.config.{ts,js} if present; otherwise uses CLI flags + defaults."
2. In the Configuration files section (lines 252-261): "The CLI auto-discovers (in order): 1. aeo.config.ts 2. aeo.config.js. Both export a default AeoConfig object … Flags passed on the command line override config values."

docs/vanilla.md's Quick Start (Steps 1-2, ~line 50) repeats the same broken workflow: npx aeo.js init → edit the generated aeo.config.ts → npx aeo.js generate, with no caveat that the edits are ignored.

The CLI source proves it false

src/cli.ts does not import, require, or read any aeo.config.* file at runtime:

• cmdGenerate (cli.ts:94-126) builds its config exclusively from CLI flags: resolveConfig({ title, url, outDir, widget }).
• cmdCheck (cli.ts:186-244) — same — flags only.
• cmdReport (cli.ts:246-260) — same — flags only.
• resolveConfig in src/core/utils.ts only merges its argument with defaults; it does not touch the filesystem.

The only references to aeo.config.* in the entire CLI are non-loading:

• cmdInit (cli.ts:129-134) — existsSync to refuse overwriting an existing config.
• cmdCheck (cli.ts:229-238) — existsSync purely to print Config file: found / not found (using defaults). This is the most misleading part: it announces the config was found while completely ignoring its contents.

A repo-wide grep for loadConfig / readConfig / dynamic import('aeo.config') / jiti / tsx returns no loader implementation.

Step-by-step proof a user is misled

1. User reads docs/vanilla.md, runs npx aeo.js init → aeo.config.ts is created with title: 'My Site', url: 'https://example.com'.
2. User edits the config: title: 'Acme Cloud', url: 'https://acme.cloud', sets schema.organization.name, robots.disallow, widget.position, etc.
3. User runs npx aeo.js check and sees Config file: found — believes the config is being used.
4. User runs npx aeo.js generate — but cmdGenerate calls resolveConfig({ title: undefined, url: undefined, outDir: undefined, widget: undefined }). Every flag the user did not pass becomes undefined, and resolveConfig fills in defaults.
5. The emitted llms.txt / sitemap.xml / schema.json use title: "My Site" and url: "https://example.com". Every customization the user made in aeo.config.ts is silently discarded.

Impact

• Headline workflow of two brand-new docs is broken — vanilla.md Quick Start and cli.md generate walkthrough both tell users to edit the config file, and cli.md has a dedicated "Configuration files" section that documents an entirely fictitious auto-discovery + override mechanism.
• check actively reinforces the false belief. The "Config file: found" line is uniquely harmful because it appears to confirm the loader worked.
• A user who hand-codes around the issue with flags will be fine, but anyone following the documented config-file workflow ships defaults to production.

How to fix

Two options, either is fine:

1. Docs-only fix (smaller diff). Drop the cli.md "Configuration files" section. Rewrite the cli.md generate step 2 to say "Uses CLI flags + defaults; for stored config, use the programmatic API." Rewrite vanilla.md Quick Start to drop init from the recommended path or mark aeo.config.ts as a template for the programmatic API only. Remove the Config file: found line from cmdCheck (or make it accurate, e.g. "Config file present but CLI does not load it; use the programmatic API").
2. Implement the loader. Add a loadConfigFile() helper that resolves aeo.config.ts / aeo.config.js via jiti or dynamic import, and call it at the top of cmdGenerate / cmdCheck / cmdReport before merging CLI flags on top. Keep the docs as written.

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