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This is the official documentation of the Ballerina Visual Studio Code plugin.

Ballerina VSCode Documentation

Choreo Documentation

This is the Ballerina VS Code plugin documentation repository. This repository is open and we welcome your contributions!

Contribute to VS Code plugin documentation

Before you contribute, read the following guidelines to understand how you can start contributing:

1. Accept the contributor license agreement (CLA)

   You need to accept the contributor license agreement (CLA) when you are prompted via a GitHub email notification on sending your first pull request (PR). Subsequent PRs will not require CLA acceptance.

   If the CLA changes for some (unlikely) reason, you'll have to accept the new CLA text when you send your first PR after the change.

2. Fork this repository, make your changes, and send in a pull request.

We look forward to your contributions.

Run the project locally

Step 1 - Install Python

MacOS

If you are using macOS, you probably already have a version of Python installed on your machine. Run the following command to verify:

$ python --version
Python 2.7.2

If your version of Python is 2.x.x, you need to install Python3. Follow the instructions in this guide to install Python3.

Once you are done, you should see two versions of Python on your machine; python2 and python3.

Ubuntu and other versions of Debian Linux

Python 3 is pre-installed in these versions, which you can verify using the python3 -V command. Run sudo apt install -y python3-pip to install pip and verify using pip3 -V.

Step 2 - Install pip

INFO

If pip is not already installed on your machine, run get-pip.py to install pip. Then run the following command to install it:

$ python get-pip.py

Pip is most likely installed by default. However, you may need to upgrade pip to the latest version:

$ pip install --upgrade pip

Step 3 - Install the pip packages

To clone the Choreo documentation GitHub repository and run the site on your local server, follow these steps:

1. Fork https://github.com/wso2/docs-ballerina-visual-studio-code-plugin.

2. Navigate to the locatiion where you want to clone the repo and clone the forked repository.

   $ git clone https://github.com/[git-username]/docs-ballerina-visual-studio-code-plugin.git

3. Navigate to the directory where you cloned the repo.

   For example:

   $ cd docs-ballerina-visual-studio-code-plugin/<Language-folder>/

   $ cd docs-ballerina-visual-studio-code-plugin/en/

4. Run following command to install the theme. (Note: This is not needed when we have customized theme.)

   $ pip install mkdocs-material

Step 4 - Run MkDocs

1. To start the server and view the site on your local server, run the following command:

   $ mkdocs serve

   NOTE:

   If you want to make changes and see them on the fly, run the following command to start the server and view the site on your local server:

   1. Navigate to the mkdocs.yml file.

   2. Set the following configuration:

      #Breaks build if there's a warning
      strict: false
      

   3. To start the server, make it load the changes, and display the changes faster, run the following command:

      mkdocs serve --dirtyreload

2. To view the Choreo documentation site locally, open the following URL on a new browser window:

   http://localhost:8000/

NOTE:

If you are using the mkdocs serve --dirtyreload command to run the MkDocs server, be sure to change the configuration in the mkdocs.yml file as follows before sending a pull request:

strict: true

License

Licenses this source under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE), You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.