DEVELOP.rst

Theme Developer Guide

Introduction

To make changes to this theme, follow this process:

1. Making changes to the theme
2. Prepare a release
3. Upload to PyPI
4. Rebuild all Crate docs

Note: If you have made changes to the Crate.io website and want to see those changes reflected in the docs, you must make the same changes to this theme.

Making changes to the theme

HTML templates

Create a branch for your changes.

Once you have a branch, the basic workflow goes like this:

1. Modify the theme files
2. Build the project docs to test what the theme looks like
3. If you need to make additional changes, reset the build environment and go back to step one

The best way to test your changes is to build the sample docs for this project in a continuous manner, i.e. to be able to inspect changes in near real-time when editing files and resources.

The optimal workflow is to invoke make bundle-watch within the top-level directory, and, in another terminal session, change to the docs directory cd docs, and invoke make dev.

See the Documentation section below for more details.

Once the webserver is running, you can view your local copy of the docs by visiting http://127.0.0.1:8000 in a web browser.

When you are ready, create a pull request. Once an appropriate reviewer has approved the pull request, merge your changes to the main branch. A project admin should be asked to complete the remaining steps.

Attention!

Make sure to update the CHANGES.rst file with a description of what you changed. (Be sure to add your change items to the Unreleased section.)

Note

For all other Crate projects, make dev fetches a released version of the theme from PyPI. However, this project is different. When you run make dev, the build system creates a mock release of the theme using your local files and installs it into the Python virtual environment used by the build system. This trick allows you to preview what the theme would look like if it were released.

The Python virtual environment caches packages, including the mock one you use for testing. Accordingly, you must reset the cache every time you make a change to the theme that you want to preview. You can do that like so:

$ make reset

JavaScript, CSS and asset files

Add new JavaScript and CSS to custom.css and custom.js respectively. In order to run the bundling process, invoke the shortcut command make bundle-develop, which in turn invokes those commands:

yarn install
npx webpack --mode=development

Those commands might need some prerequisites installed on your machine. In order to run the setup on, e.g., Linux, invoke those commands - YMMV:

sudo apt update
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo npm install --global yarn

Release

Prepare a release

To create a new release from the main branch:

• Add a new version section to the CHANGES.txt file
  • Please honor `SemVer`_ when choosing the new version number. If this release includes breaking changes, please add the boilerplate notice to the top of the changelog entry.
  • Please separate out the changes into sections where it makes sense. Consult previous releases for an idea of how to do this.
• Update VERSION in src/crate/theme/rtd/__init__.py
• Commit your changes with a message like "Prepare release x.y.z"
• Push to origin
• Run ./devtools/create_tag.sh
• Visit the releases page and select the version you just released
• Select Edit tag
• Copy and paste the changelog notes for this release (be sure to remove the hard line breaks)
• Check the Preview tab for display errors and fix if necessary
• Select Publish release

Upload to PyPI

To build and upload the package, you must have Yarn (the package manager) installed on your system. The Makefile uses Yarn to install the dependencies necessary to compile the JavaScript and CSS assets.

Switch to the project root directory for the following commands.

Build the package:

$ make build

TIP

If you encounter a Ruby error when running make, it is likely because you have the yarn gem installed and its executable appears first your PATH. To fix this issue, uninstall the yarn gem or reconfigure your PATH.

Upload the package to PyPI:

$ make upload

For this to work, you will need a personal PyPI account and that account must be an admin for this project on PyPI.

You'll also need to create a ~/.pypirc file, like so:

[distbuild]
index-servers =
  pypi

[pypi]
username=<USERNAME>
password=<PASSWORD>

Here, <USERNAME> and <PASSWORD> should be replaced with your PyPI username and password, respectively.

To see a list of other build options, run:

$ make

Rebuild all Crate docs

Once the theme is released, you must rebuild all of the Crate docs so that they pick up the changes. Consult the internal documentation for help rebuilding the docs.

Documentation

We write the documentation with Sphinx and ReStructuredText.

Working on the documentation

Python >= 3.7 or higher is required.

Change into the docs directory:

$ cd docs

For help, run:

$ make

Crate Docs Build

Run `make <TARGET>`, where <TARGET> is one of:

  dev     Run a Sphinx development server that builds and lints the
          documentation as you edit the source files

  html    Build the static HTML output

  check   Build, test, and lint the documentation

  reset   Reset the build cache

Testing on mobile

If you want to test the theme on a mobile device, you can run the dev server on 0.0.0.0:8000 instead of 127.0.0.1:8000. When you bind to 0.0.0.0, devices on your local network can access the dev server by connecting to your machine's IP address on port 8000.

Bind the dev server to 0.0.0.0 like this:

$ make SPHINX_OPTS='-W -n --host 0.0.0.0' dev

Continuous integration and deployment

This project uses GitHub Actions to run make check from the docs directory.

Also, Read the Docs automatically rebuilds the documentation whenever an active docs branch is updated.

To make changes to the RTD configuration (e.g., to activate or deactivate a release version), please contact an admin.