Welcome to the Prohelion Documentation Set

Any issues with our documentation, please log an issue here on GitHub

Editing the Documentation

These documents are build with MkDocs-Material

To edit the documents locally you will need to install the MkDocs using the instructions found on the MkDocs Material website

As per the instructions you will need to install, mkdocs material

pip install mkdocs-material

And also the following additional tools are required for the Prohelion instance

pip install mkdocs-awesome-pages-plugin
pip install mkdocs-glightbox
pip install mkdocs-spellcheck
pip install symspellpy

Using VSCode with Dev Containers

A Dockerfile and .devcontainer.json have been created under the .devcontainer directory. This allows the all development to be performed inside a Docker container using VSCode. The Docker container captures all the dependencies required to build and serve the documentation website.

Steps

1. See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers#_installation for how to install VSCode with Dev Containers.
2. Open this repo using VSCode. this example is using CMD on Windows.

cd prohelion.github.io/
code .

3. Run the Dev Containers: Rebuild and Reopen in Container command using the from the Command Palette (F1) or quick actions Status bar item.

Link Checking

A link checker is used to validate all URLs on the site before publishing, we have been using the Integrity Link Checker for Mac, on Windows LinkChecker is a good soltuion, but any link checker you like is fine.

Publishing the documentation

Any documentation that is commited to the main branch of this repo will be automatically deployed. A GitHub CI script will publish the site and post it to the gh-pages branch on github from where the site is staticly served by GitHub to the domain https://docs.prohelion.com