Toolkitchen docs are mostly in Markdown with some HTML. Jekyll is used to generate the static HTML for the site. The output is copied to
/toolkitchen/toolkitchen.github.com for serving.
Our documentation source files (located in this repo) and the rendered HTML (located in /toolkitchen/toolkitchen.github.com)
are in separate repos in order to take advantage of Jekyll _plugins, special build scripts, and have full control
over doc generation.
We use Grunt to generate the documentation. You'll need to install the requirements before working on the docs:
npm install
This repo (toolkitchen/docs) is where the documentation source files live. To make a change, follow this basic process:
- Checkout this repo and make desired changes.
- To build the docs locally, run
gruntor ``. This starts a web server at http://localhost:4000 where you can preview your edits. This also watches and rebuilds on changes.
The generated site is placed in a folder named _site. Alternatively, if you just want to
build the docs and not run a webserver, run:
grunt jekyll:server
Once your changes look good, git commit them and push.
Note: only project owners can publish the documentation.
First, checkout toolkitchen/toolkitchen.github.com alongside your local copy of toolkitchen/toolkit.
This repo is where the generated docs live and are served from using
Github Pages. It's hidden as not
to confuse users or have extraneous locations for filing bugs.
Next, run the publish task:
grunt publish
This generates the docs in _site/ and copies its contents into your checked out version
of toolkitchen/toolkitchen.github.com.
The last step is to commit and push those changes live. To do that, just make the commit:
git commit -am 'Updating live docs'
git push