This repository serves as a template for creating documentation for Hyperledger projects. The template utilizes MkDocs (documentation at mkdocs.org) and the theme Material for MkDocs (documentation at Material for MkDocs). Material adds a number of extra features to MkDocs, and Hyperledger repositories can take advantage of the theme's Insiders capabilities.

To test the documents and update the published site, the following tools are needed:

• A Bash shell
• git
• Python 3
• The Material for Mkdocs theme.
• The Mike MkDocs plugin for publishing versions to gh-pages.
  • Not used locally, but referenced in the mkdocs.yml file and needed for deploying the site to gh-pages.

git can be installed locally, as described in the Install Git Guide from GitHub.

Python 3 can be installed locally, as described in the Python Getting Started guide.

The Mkdocs-related items can be installed locally, as described in the Material for Mkdocs installation instructions. The short, case-specific version of those instructions follow:

pip install -r requirements.txt

To verify your setup, check that you can run mkdocs by running the command mkdocs --help to see the help text.

The commands you will usually use with mkdocs are:

• mkdocs serve - Start the live-reloading docs server.
• mkdocs build - Build the documentation site.
• mkdocs -h - Print help message and exit.

The basic process for adding content to the site is:

• Create a new markdown file under the docs folder
• Add the new file to the table of contents (nav section in the mkdocs.yml file)

If you are using this as a template for creating your own documentation, please see the instructions for customization.

mkdocs.yml    # The configuration file.
docs/
    index.md  # The documentation homepage.
    ...       # Other markdown pages, images and other files.