Read the Docs - ext-theme

This package is the next generation theme for the Read the Docs application UI.

It aims to be a drop in replacement for the current templates for the Read the Docs application and will replace the entire UI for the application. It includes updated templates, new JavaScript sources, and UI based on FomanticUI (SemanticUI). It does still retain most of the patterns and tools already used in the existing application templates. It is an addition to the readthedocsext package, and provides the theme Django application.

Warning

This package is still alpha level quality and is not ready for general use.

Installation

If you built your local development image with a GitHub token defined, this package is already installed in your built image. This should be the default for core team.

If not, follow the application installation directions again, and make sure to set the neccessary GitHub token environment variables.

You will want to check this repository out in the same path as your other repositories if you plan on doing development on the files in this repository:

% git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:readthedocs/ext-theme.git

Usage

The recommended way of starting your local instance is:

% inv docker.up --webpack --ext-theme  # `-we` for short

This will start the Webpack dev server container for hot/live reload of compiled assets and will alter the template load pattern to make use of templates in this package first. You do not need to rebuild the asset files until you open a pull request.

You can run your local instance without Webpack, but you will lose live and hot reload for the front end assets and you will need to manually run collectstatic after every change to the front end assets.

Testing

Our standard JS stack uses Jest for testing. Execute tests as normal:

% npm test

Linting

Our standard JS stack uses Prettier for linting. Test linting with:

% npm run lint

Reformat code with:

% npm run format

Linting checks are performed at CI and will produce errors.

Building

CI checks will also check to see that the built CSS and JavaScript assets are up to date. When you submit a pull request, you'll need to rebuild the asset files included in the repository here:

% npm run build

More resources

ext-theme documentation

Some documentation of patterns, conventions, and API reference

JavaScript reference

API reference for JavaScript front end code

Template API reference

Template reference and documentation

Learning JavaScript

Some resources on learning modern JavaScript