stakater-docs-mkdocs-theme

This project serves as a shared MkDocs theme for all the Stakater MkDocs projects. By integrating this repository as a git submodule into your project, you can utilize the common theme and take updates.

Usage Guide

Pre-requisites

Python 3 environment

1. Import as git submodule

Add this repo as a submodule to your target Mkdocs project at the theme_common path:

git submodule add git@github.com:stakater/stakater-docs-mkdocs-theme.git theme_common

Your target project directory should look like this after adding the submodule:

your-project/
    theme_common/
    ...

You can learn more about git submodules here.

2. Directory structure in target project

To override the theme_common, create a theme_override folder and customise the files there as you need. Directory structure would look like this after that:

your-project/
    theme_common/
    theme_override/

In your theme_override folder, you could for example override mkdocs.yml in the common theme by creating the same file in the theme_override folder:

site_name: <project name>
site_url: https://project-name.stakater.com/
repo_url: <git https url>
docs_dir: content
edit_uri: blob/main/content/

nav:
  - index.md

3. Add content in target MkDocs project

In this project, default mkdocs documentation folder is set to content. If you want to override that setting, you can change following properties in theme_override/mkdocs.yml:

• docs_dir
• edit_uri

Add your content and then you can link it in theme_override/mkdocs.yml by overriding the following setting:

• nav

You can visit MkDocs official documentation to find out how to define nav in mkdocs.yml file.

Target project's directory structure would look like this after adding content dir:

your-project/
    theme_common/
    theme_override/
    content/

4. Run scripts in target project

Assuming that target project will already have a python environment, execute the following commands in the root of your target project:

1. Install Python Dependencies:

   pip3 install -r theme_common/requirements.txt

2. Combine Theme Resources:

   python theme_common/scripts/combine_theme_resources.py theme_common/resources theme_override/resources dist/_theme

   Above command will output combined theme to dist/_theme.

3. Produce mkdocs YAML file:

   python theme_common/scripts/combine_mkdocs_config_yaml.py theme_common/mkdocs.yml theme_override/mkdocs.yml mkdocs.yml

   These scripts will create a combined theme and a mkdocs.yml file.

Your target project will now have an mkdocs theme. If you want to customise mkdocs.yml or theme resources, you can do so by modifying files in theme_override folder and running the above scripts again.

Your Dockerfile in the target repo needs to run the same steps to build the combined theme that will be used to build the docs.

Versioning is provided by theme_override and can be added to the mkdocs.yml when required under:

    version:
        provider: mike
        default: latest

It is compiled under the dist/_theme

Tip: Copy prepare_theme.sh file to your project and run it to avoid the above scripts in step 4.