Working With Project Documentation

Installing Prerequisites

This project is using mkdocs to generate the static documentation that is then hosted on Github Pages. The only requirement for building mkdocs is to have Python 3 installed, which can be done through Chocolatey.

# Installs Python from Chocolatey.  Alternatively Python can be manually installed.
choco install python

# Installs required mkdocs package
pip install mkdocs mkdocs-awesome-pages-plugin mkdocs-static-i18n mkdocs-macros-plugin

Project Layout

mkdocs.yml    # Mkdocs root configuration file.
mkdocs/
    index.md  # The documentation homepage.
    ...       # Other markdown pages, images and other files.

Making Changes

mkdocs has a built in server that will watch for changes being made, and immediately display those changes.

You can launch the the live server using mkdocs serve, and open http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser. You can now make edits and have the page automatically refresh and display those changes!