README.md

Mkdocs Framework and Material Theme for the Polkadot Developer Documentation Site

This repo contains the Mkdocs config files, theme overrides, and CSS changes.

• Mkdocs
• Material for Mkdocs

The actual content is stored in the polkadot-docs repo and pulled in during build.

• Polkadot Docs

Get Started

Clone the Repository

So first, lets clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/papermoonio/polkadot-mkdocs
cd polkadot-mkdocs

Install Dependencies

To get started you need to have Mkdocs installed. All dependencies can be installed with a single command, you can run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Set Up Repository Structure

In order for everything to work correctly, the structure needs to be as follows:

polkadot-mkdocs
|--- /material-overrides/ (folder)
|--- /polkadot-docs/ (repository)
|--- mkdocs.yml

Inside the polkadot-mkdocs directory just created, clone the polkadot-docs repository:

git clone https://github.com/polkadot-developers/polkadot-docs.git

Run the Docs

Now in the polkadot-mkdocs folder, you can build the site by running:

mkdocs serve

After a successful build, the site should be available locally at http://127.0.0.1:8000.