Bolt Documentation Site & Content

This repository is for both the site, and content, of Bolt, and should be considered a counterpart of the Bolt repository.

The documentation uses the Markdown format. There is no need to build anything to generate HTML. We parse the markdown with PHP.

Since this repository is set up to use git's worktree feature, it is advised with to use git version 2.5 or later.

Updating Documentation

The repository uses branches to group documentation relevant to each version in the format of release/<version>.

Changes should be PR-ed against the lowest relevant version and will then be merged down into higher version branches as required.

e.g. if you're fixing a typo that exists in the same Markdown file in both version 3.0 as well as in 3.1, you would checkout release/3.0 and submit your PR against that branch.

Local site set-up

To run the site locally you need to complete the following steps:

Create the repository with git clone
Create worktrees for required versions
Run composer update to install required vendor libraries

Site Set-up

git clone git@github.com:bolt/docs.git bolt-docs
cd bolt-docs
git checkout site
composer install

Worktrees Set-up

An example that sets up work trees for version 3.0 of the documentation branches:

git worktree add -b release/3.0 var/versions/3.0

Alternatively, if you have grep and sed installed, this will set up all of the version worktrees for you

for VERSION in $(git branch --remotes --list | grep -E "origin\/release\/[2-9]" | sed 's/origin\/release\///g'); do 
    git worktree add -b release/$VERSION var/versions/$VERSION
done

Configure Default Version

For your local environment you can add a configuration file, located at app/config.yml to facilitate local development. It should contain the following:

debug: true

default-version: '3.0'

Note: If you want to set it to 3.0 for example, be sure to include the quotes. Otherwise the YML parser will interpret it as 3.

Web Server Set-up

Finally if you wish to use the built-in PHP web server, it can be run from the bolt-docs/ folder, pointing to web/ as the document root.

php -S 0.0.0.0:8000 -t web web/index.php

Alternatively, configure your preferred webserver to point at the web/ folder. To see the documentation site go to example.localhost/3.1/, from where you'll get redirected to the front page of the documentation.