hexdoc-caduceus

Python web book docgen and hexdoc plugin for Caduceus.

A Clojure-based Hex Casting addon for advanced meta-evaluation. Created for HexJam 2025.

Version scheme

We use hatch-gradle-version to generate the version number based on whichever mod version the docgen was built with.

The version is in this format: mod-version.python-version.mod-pre.python-dev.python-post

For example:

• Mod version: 0.11.1-7
• Python package version: 1.0.dev0
• Full version: 0.11.1.1.0rc7.dev0

Setup

Install Python 3.11.

python3.11 -m venv venv

.\venv\Scripts\activate   # Windows
. venv/bin/activate.fish  # fish
source venv/bin/activate  # everything else

# run from the repo root, not doc/
pip install -e .[dev]

Usage

For local testing, create a file called .env in the repo root following this template:

GITHUB_REPOSITORY=object-Object/Caduceus
GITHUB_SHA=main
GITHUB_PAGES_URL=https://github.com/object-Object/Caduceus

Useful commands:

# show help
hexdoc -h

# render and serve the web book in watch mode
nodemon --config doc/nodemon.json

# render and serve the web book
hexdoc serve

# build and merge the web book
hexdoc build
hexdoc merge

# start the Python interpreter with some extra local variables
hexdoc repl