Documentation website

Table of contents

• Overview
• Build process
• Development tips
• Domain configuration

Overview

Carbon's main website is the GitHub project page. Carbon remains too early and experimental to have a full-fledged website.

This directories contains infrastructure for building the convenience documentation website, which should be at https://docs.carbon-lang.dev.

Build process

Website generation is done by gh_pages_deploy.yaml. It runs prebuild.py, which prepares files for website generation, then builds the website using Jekyll, configured through _config.yml.

Development tips

rbenv can be used to set up Ruby and bundle.

To run a server, run bundle exec jekyll serve. See Jekyll docs for more commands.

To update the Gemfile.lock after Gemfile changes, run bundle update.

Domain configuration

The custom domain is configured in three places:

• GitHub organization verified domains
• GitHub repository custom domain
• Google Cloud DNS
  • This is visible with dig docs.carbon-lang.dev

Note all of these require admin permissions to modify. For sharing test pages, a GitHub user and repository can be used, pushing to <username>.github.io (or getting a custom DNS setup).