This repository contains documentation in the form of Markdown files for the ARC API (Sourceloop), API IaC and ARC UI.

Mkdocs and its material theme is used for this repo to generate the static site in gh-pages branch. To get started with contributing to this repository, you will need to install the following Python packages in your system:

pip install mkdocs mkdocs-material
pip install mkdocs-techdocs-core
pip install mkdocs-include-markdown-plugin
pip install mkdocs-awesome-pages-plugin

Please note that running these commands will require Python and pip to be installed on your system.

Once you have these packages installed, you can run the following command to check things locally before contributing:

mkdocs serve

This will start a local server at http://localhost:8000/ where you can preview the documentation.

For deploying the docs on GitHub Pages mkdocs has the mkdocs gh-deploy command which is used in docs workflow.

However, If you want to build the site locally, you can do so by running the following command:

mkdocs build

This will create the folder named site containing the static build files. Similar to what arc-docs have in its gh-pages branch.

We use the mkdocs-awesome-pages-plugin to organize our documentation as it provides more features than default mkdocs nav options. To configure navigation for a particular section, please create/modify the .pages.yml file in that folder and add the appropriate navigation links.

For more information on configuring navigation with mkdocs-awesome-pages-plugin, please refer to the official documentation.