A command-line tool for building documentation from repositories into HTML files. Initially based on https://github.com/juju/docs/blob/master/tools/mdbuild.py.
Project description
A tool for building a set of documentation files in HTML format, from a remote git repository containing markdown files.
Installation
The best way to install documentation-builder is with snap:
sudo snap install documentation-builderIf you don’t have snap on your system, you can also install it with pip3:
pip3 install ubuntudesign.documentation-builderFor more information see the documentation.
Development
documentation-builder is a Python module. The main application code lives in ubuntudesign/documentation_builder. Updates to the markup or styling should be made in the default template.
Checking changes
To check your changes to documentation-builder, it’s probably easiest to install the module locally, in editable mode, within an encapsulated environment:
python3 -m venv env3 && source env3/bin/activate # Create encapsulated environment
pip install -e . # Install the module in editable mode
documentation-builder --source-folder docs # build the documentation-builder's own documentation
xdg-open build/en/index.html # Open up the documentation pageWatching for changes
On Ubuntu et al. you can use inotifywait to watch for changes to the source files, and rebuild when something changes as follows:
sudo apt install inotify-tools # Ensure inotifywait is installed
# Force rebuild docs when anything changes in the source folder
while inotifywait -r -e close_write "./ubuntudesign"; do bin/documentation-builder --force --source-folder docs; doneTests
To run tests:
./setup.py testRelease history Release notifications | RSS feed
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