local-development.md

Adding featured to the template

These instructions will create a local server, with site hosted on port 8000. Source markdown files can be found in src/ folder.

To view/edit the site in live mode, open a browser session in http://localhost:8000

Set up environment

Skip this stop if venv exists in current directory.

Verify if virtual environment is already installed

$ virtualenv --version

If the command returns error, then install virtualenv

$ pip install virtualenv

Create virtual environment venv

$ virtualenv venv

Activate virtual environment

$ source venv/bin/activate

Install Dependencies

(venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Running locally

(venv) $ mkdocs serve

Open the browser with http://localhost:8000

If ever needed, you can also generate the `site` folder locally via:
(venv) $ mkdocs build --clean

What if there is a port conflict?

The default dev_addr configuration is set to 127.0.0.1:8000. Add the line below to mkdocs.yml for changing the port (example 9000)

default: '127.0.0.1:9000'

Refer this for other configurations.