This documentation was moved into the GOV.UK Developer Docs in September 2023.
The documentation is available to view online here.
This project uses the Tech Docs Template, which is a Middleman template that you can use to build technical documentation using a GOV.UK style.
To use the Tech Docs Template you need:
To make changes to the documentation for the Tech Docs Template website, edit files in the source folder of this repository.
You can add content by editing the .html.md files. These files support content in:
- Markdown
- HTML
👉 You can use Markdown and HTML to generate different content types.
👉 Learn more about producing more complex page structures for your website.
To preview your new website locally, navigate to your project folder and run:
bundle exec middleman server👉 See the generated website on http://localhost:4567 in your browser. Any content changes you make to your website will be updated in real time.
To shut down the Middleman instance running on your machine, use ctrl+C.
If you make changes to the config/tech-docs.yml configuration file, you need to restart Middleman to see the changes.
To build the HTML pages from content in your source folder, run:
bundle exec middleman build
Every time you run this command, the build folder gets generated from scratch. This means any changes to the build folder that are not part of the build command will get overwritten.
Run bundle update to make sure you're using the most recent Ruby gem versions.
Run bundle exec middleman build --verbose to get detailed error messages to help with finding the problem.
Unless stated otherwise, the codebase is released under the MIT Licence. This covers both the codebase and any sample code in the documentation.
The documentation is © Crown copyright and available under the terms of the Open Government 3.0 licence.