Gin website
Welcome! This repository houses all the assets required to build the Gin website and documentation. We're pleased that you want to contribute! The website is hosted at https://gin-gonic.com.
We use Hugo to format and generate our website, the Docsy theme for styling and site structure. Thanks!.
Note: We only support hugo v0.75.1 version.
Contribution
- Fork the repository
You can click the Fork button in the upper-right area of the screen to create a copy of this repository in your GitHub account. This copy is called as fork.
You need to use the below command to clone code for docsy theme.
git clone --recurse-submodules --depth 1 https://github.com/google/docsy.git themes/docsy- Create one pull request
Make any changes you want in your fork, and when you are ready to send those changes to us, go to your fork and create a new pull request to let us know about it.
- Merge the pull request
Once your pull request is created, a Gin reviewer will take responsibility for providing clear, actionable feedback, re-improve and merge.
Running
See the official Hugo documentation for Hugo installation instructions.
To run the site locally when you have Hugo installed:
# If use `hugo` command, you need to use `npm install` command
$ npm install
$ hugo
# Or use `hugo server`, it not need `npm install` command
$ hugo serverThis will start the local Hugo server on port 1313. Open up your browser to http://localhost:1313 to view the site. As you make changes to the source files, Hugo updates the site and forces a browser refresh.
Thanks
Gin thrives on community participation, and we really appreciate your contributions to our site and our documentation!