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The develop branch is continuously deployed to a preview site. View dev site
The master branch is continuously deployed to production.
Please, feel free to make any contributions you feel will make SendGrid Documentation better.
Submit all pull requests to the develop branch
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- Clone the repo.
npm installto install build tools.bower installto install client-side dependencies (jQuery, bootstrap)bundle installto install required rubygems.- Copy
_config.sample.ymland name it_config.yml - Set your root (if you're running locally it'll just be
/) in_config.yml bundle exec rake preview- Browse to
localhost:4000
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The source files are in
/source, and the generated files will be created in/public. They get overwritten or wiped out when the site is rebuilt. -
To rebuild the site:
rake generate
The config is defined in _config.yml.
The only config variables you should need to know about are root, which is the root from which all links are calculated, and the folder_weights hash, which specifies the order that the folders should be displayed in the nav tree. Higher weights mean higher display priority (higher in the tree). You can also specify icons for folders with the
folder_icons hash.
There's also a version number in the config.
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Clone the repo.
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Bring up development environment with Vagrant
$ vagrant up -
Browse to http://localhost:4000
$ vagrant ssh
$ cd docs && bin/test
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The source files are in
/source, and the generated files will be created in/public. They get overwritten or wiped out when the site is rebuilt. -
To rebuild the site:
rake generate
The config is defined in _config.yml.
The only config variables you should need to know about are root, which is the root from which all links are calculated, and the folder_weights hash, which specifies the order that the folders should be displayed in the nav tree. Higher weights mean higher display priority (higher in the tree). You can also specify icons for folders with the
folder_icons hash.
There's also a version number in the config.
The nav tree is generated by the plugin site_navigation.rb. It is essentially a recursive traversal of all the folders and pages in the Source folder that generates a hierarchical tree, sorted by folder weight and page weight.
Breadcrumbs are generated by the breadcrumbs.rb plugin.
You can write pages in markdown, HTML, or HAML. They all get converted to HTML when the site is generated.
Pages have a block of YAML at the top that sets a few options. They are pretty self-explanatory; here's an example
---
layout: page
weight: 0
title: Docs Home
icon: icon-home
showTitle: false
navigation:
show: true
---
Weights are same as the folder weights - the higher numbers move higher up the tree. Icons are based on the CSS icon class names from Twitter Bootstrap. showTitle and navigation["show"] both default to true if not specified.
Various fields pertinent to SEO can be controlled through the YAML frontmatter. Here's an example:
---
seo:
title: Really Great Documentation - SendGrid Documentation | SendGrid
override: true
description: This is some really great documentation! I hope you like it!
canonical: http://sendgrid.com/docs/really-great-docs
---
By default <title> tags follow the template {Page Title} {Site Title}. However the page title can be changed for the purpose of the tag by using seo["title"]. seo["override"] will override the entire template, instead making the title page {seo["title"]}. description and canonical change their respective tags.
There are some custom plugins (look in the plugins folder) that define new liquid blocks for use in pages.
You can create anchor tags that will have named anchors generated for them automatically with links on hover. The parameter is the wrapping element to use.
{% anchor h2 %}
Some Anchor Text
{% endanchor %}
Similarly you can create info and warning blocks:
{% info %}
Some info for a breakout block.
{% endinfo %}
{% warning %}
...And a warning breakout.
{% endwarning %}
If you are working on API reference docs, you can generate XML and JSON nav tabs and the corresponding example calls and responses like so:
{% apiexample identifier GET http://some.endpoint.url var1=stuff&var2=junk %}
{% response json %}
{ "foo": "bar" }
{% endresponse %}
{% response xml %}
<foo>bar</foo>
{% endresponse %}
{% endapiexample %}
The parameters for the apiexample block are: unique identifier, HTTP
method, the url (excluding .json or .xml extension), and the data
payload in querystring format.
JavaScript and CSS are minified and combined. The files to be packaged and their orders are specified in _includes/head.html and CssMinify.yml. Preprocessing and options can be specified
via _plugins/jekyll_asset_pipeline.rb.