Documentation site for Datadog
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Setup
Installation
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Install Node / npm (node
>=14.16.0
) -
Install Python3 (you can also use pyenv)
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Install Go (at minimum,
go version
1.12) -
Install yarn:
npm install -g yarn
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Download the documentation repo
git clone https://github.com/DataDog/documentation.git
Run the server
Inside documentation/
folder, create a Makefile.config
file from the Makefile.config.example
If you are a Datadog employee, add your GitHub personal token
To run the documentation site locally, execute:
Command | Description |
---|---|
make start-no-pre-build |
Build the lightweight version of the documentation with no extra content |
make start |
Build the full documentation with all extra content (integrations, extra pulled files, localized content, etc). Only useful if you have a GitHub personal token setup in your Makefile.config or the extra content is available locally. If you are working with local content, the repo must be downloaded to the same folder as the documentation repo. |
Documentation is then available at http://localhost:1313
To learn more about how the documentation is built, refer to the Documentation Build Wiki.
Makefile
To use the Makefile, create a Makefile.config. See the instructions at the top of the Makefile.config.example.
After you have a config file, run make help
to see options:
clean-all Clean everything.
clean-build Remove build artifacts.
clean-exe Remove execs.
clean-integrations Remove built integrations files.
clean-node Remove node_modules.
clean-virt Remove python virtual env.
clean Clean all make installs.
hugpython Build virtualenv used for tests.
source-helpers Source the helper functions used to build, test, deploy.
start-no-pre-build Build the documentation without automatically pulled content.
start Build the documentation with all external content.
stop Stop wepack watch/hugo server.
Working on Docs
Datadog Staff
- Always branch off of master; never commit directly to master.
- Name your branch
<SLACK_HANDLE>/<FEATURE_NAME>
if you would like to create a preview site and run tests. - When you are ready to commit, create a new pull request to master from your branch.
- Consult our contributing guidelines, and the Documentation Build Wiki.
- Use GitHub's draft pull request feature and appropriate labels such as "Do Not Merge" or "Work in Progress" until your PR is ready to be merged and live on production.
Outside Contributors
- Fork the master branch.
- Consult our contributing guidelines.
- When you are ready to finalize your changes, commit them, and then make a pull request back to
DataDog/master
. - A DataDog technical writer might change your PR title with a DOCS ticket number, such as "[DOCS-9000]" which just means it has been added to the team's internal Jira queue to triage and review. No action is necessary from you if we change the title of your PR.
A note about markdown
This site uses Goldmark for markdown, which is compliant with CommonMark 0.29.
If you include ANY Markdown in a file, give it an .md
extension.
Make sure all files are lowercase. Macs are case insensitive when creating links to images and pages, but our build server is not, so tests may work locally, but the site will fail in production.
Releasing
Within 10 minutes of merging to master, it deploys automatically.