DocGen

The poor man's documentation platform

What is this?

DocGen converts MD files to HTML whilst placing them into an environment that is suitable for web hosting.

Setup

First, you're going to have to edit the PUBLIC_FOLDER variable in .env (unless you're happy with the default name). This will be your main folder for the website

Though keep in mind, that if you change PUBLIC_FOLDER, you're going to have to change the name of the site folder.

1. Download dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt
2. If you need any more assets linked, make sure to edit

   # Edit this if you need more
   ASSESTS = '''
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="{0}assets/style.css">
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="{0}assets/prism.css">
   <script type="text/javascript" src="{0}assets/prism.js"></script>
   '''

   this part of the python code.
3. Move your .md files to this project, they don't have to be in a folder, but the structure is much nicer if they are.
4. Setup SUMMARY.json according to your .md file structure (more on that later)
5. Run docgen.py, and if everything is fine, your files should be converted and added to PUBLIC_FOLDER.

SUMMARY.json

In this file you will write the structure of your files.

Example

{
    "README":"md/README.md",
    "First":{
        "MAIN":"some/path/to/md/file",
        "Sub-heading":{
            "MAIN":"some/path/to/md/file",
        },
    },
    "Second":{
        "Feature one":"some/path/to/md/file",
        "Feature two":"some/path/to/md/file"
    }
}

The example above would produce following structure:

• README
• First
  • Sub-heading
• Second
  • Feature one
  • Feature two

The entries labeled as MAIN should be files that describe the sub-header.

PUBLIC_FOLDER structure

Any file that is in the PUBLIC_FOLDER directory has a purpose.

They can be edited or even deleted, but be aware that their modification or deletion could result in an error / bug.

PrismJS

For code highlight I've used PrismJS.

The prism.js file in the assets folder, is from an online generator.
However, the prism.css file is taken from Github, the theme is One Dark.

How does all the content get rendered?

This is a very janky soultion, but in the index.html file there's an iframe element.
When a list element in the sidebar is clicked, it has a corresponding link and will add that to the iframe.

if (isMain === false) newText.onclick = () => {
    document.getElementById("page-render").src = url;
    document.title = "DocGen " + text;
    localStorage.setItem("lastPage",url)
}

The last page will be saved to local storage, and will be rendered upon re-freshing or re-opening the page.

LINKS.json

You don't have to worry about that, it's just output from docgen.py that will be used in loader.js