ubuntudesign.documentation-builder 1.4.2

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.

A tool for building a set of documentation files in HTML format, from a remote git repository containing markdown files.

Installation

snap install documentation-builder

For 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

bin/documentation-builder --source-folder docs  # build the documentation-builder's own documentation
xdg-open build/en/index.html  # Open up the documentation page

Watching 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; done

Tests

To run tests:

./setup.py test