brobin/vertdocs

Vertcoin Documentation

VertDocs

Documentation for Vertcoin.

Installation

VertDocs is built with [MkDocs]. In order to install MkDocs you will need [Python] installed on your system, as well as the Python package manager, [pip]. You can check if you have these already installed from the command line:

$ python --version
# Python 2.7.13
$ pip --version
# pip 9.0.1

MkDocs supports Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5.

On Windows it is recommended that you install Python and pip with [Chocolatey].

Installing pip

If you're using a recent version of Python, the Python package manager, pip, is most likely installed by default. However, you may need to upgrade pip to the lasted version:

$ pip install --upgrade pip

If you need to install pip for the first time, download get-pip.py. Then run the following command to install it:

$ python get-pip.py

Installing MkDocs

Install the mkdocs package using pip:

pip install mkdocs

Installing Theme

Install VertDocs theme (material) using pip:

pip install mkdocs-material

Installing Pymdown Extentions

Install pymdown-extensions using pip:

pip install pymdown-extensions

You should now have the mkdocs command installed on your system. Run mkdocs --version to check that everything worked okay.

$ mkdocs --version
mkdocs, version 0.15.3

Getting started

Getting started is super easy.

$ cd vertdocs

There is a single configuration file named mkdocs.yml, and a folder named docs that will contain the documentation source files. MkDocs comes with a built-in dev-server that lets you preview the documentation as you work on it. Make sure you are in the same directory as the mkdocs.yml configuration file, and then start the server by running the mkdocs serve command:

$ mkdocs serve
INFO    -  Building documentation...
INFO    -  Cleaning site directory
[I 160402 15:50:43 server:271] Serving on http://127.0.0.1:8000
[I 160402 15:50:43 handlers:58] Start watching changes
[I 160402 15:50:43 handlers:60] Start detecting changes

Open up http://127.0.0.1:8000 in your browser, and you will see the default home page being displayed. The dev-server also supports auto-reloading, and will rebuild your documentation whenever anything in the configuration file, documentation directory, or theme directory changes.

Building the site

To deploy dcrdocs, first build the documentation:

$ mkdocs build

This will create a new directory, named site. After some time, files may be removed from the documentation but they will still reside in the site directory. To remove those stale files, just run mkdocs with the --clean switch.

$ mkdocs build --clean

To view a list of options available on a given command, use the --help flag with that command. For example, to get a list of all options available for the build command run the following:

$ mkdocs build --help

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