Bolt Documentation Site & Content

This repository is the first part (base) for the site of Bolt, and should be considered a counterpart of the Bolt Core repository.

The second part (content) can be found here

The documentation uses the Markdown format.

There is no need to build anything to generate HTML. We parse the markdown with PHP.

Updating Documentation

The repository uses branches to group documentation relevant to each version in the format of <major.minor>, e.g. 3.0.

Changes should be PR-ed against the lowest relevant version and will then be merged down into higher version branches as required.

e.g. if you're fixing a typo that exists in the same Markdown file in both version 3.0 as well as in 3.1, you would checkout 3.0 and submit your PR against that branch.

Local site set-up

To run the site locally you need to complete the following steps:

• Create the repository with git clone
• A second 'git clone' to install the content
• Run composer install to install required vendor libraries

Site Set-up

git clone git@github.com:bolt/docs-site.git bolt-docs
cd var/versions
git clone git@github.com:bolt/docs.git 5.0
composer install

Set-up older versions

If you want to set-up older versions, e.g. 4.0, complete the following steps:

cd var/versions
git clone git@github.com:bolt/docs.git 4.0

Then, on your local site you are able to choose version 4.0 at the dropdown menu on the upper right side.

Configure Default Version

For your local environment you can edit the .env file, located in the project root. It should contain the following:

DEFAULT_VERSION=4.0
APP_ENV=dev

Web Server Set-up

Finally if you wish to use the built-in PHP web server, it can be run from the bolt-docs/ folder, pointing to public/ as the document root.

php -S 127.0.0.1:8000 -t public public/index.php

You can also use the Symfony web server bundle. You will need to start by preparing the project:

git stash
composer require server --dev
git reset --hard HEAD
rm config/routes/annotations.yaml -f
git stash pop

Then starting the web server:

bin/console server:start

Alternatively, configure your preferred web server to point at the public/ folder.

To see the documentation site go to example.localhost/3.5/, from where you'll get redirected to the front page of the documentation.

Building front-end assets

First, install the npm dependencies:

npm install

Then, build the assets:

npm run build