# Workflow
This page describes the tooling used during development of this project. It also serves as a reference for the various commands that you would use when working on this project.
## Overview
This project uses the [GitHub Flow] for collaboration. The codebase contains Python code, [Jinja2]-based HTML pages, [Sass] stylesheets and Javascript code.
- [nox] is used for automating development tasks.
- [Webpack]-based build pipeline is used to process the Sass and Javascript files.
- [sphinx-autobuild] is used to provide live-reloading pages when working on the theme.
- [pre-commit] is used for running the linters.
## Initial Setup
To work on this project, you need to have git 2.17+ and Python 3.6+. You also need to be on a platform that is officially supported by NodeJS 16.
- Clone this project using git:
```
git clone https://github.com/pradyunsg/furo.git
cd furo
```
- Install the project's development workflow runner:
```
pip install nox
```
You're all set for working on this project.
## Commands
### Code Linting
```
nox -s lint
```
Run the linters, as configured with [pre-commit].
### Local Development Server
```
nox -s docs-live
```
Serve this project's documentation locally, using [sphinx-autobuild]. This will open the generated documentation page in your browser.
The server also watches for changes made to the documentation (`docs/`) or theme (`src/`), which will trigger a rebuild. Once the build is completed, server will automagically reload any open pages using livereload.
:::{tip}
My workflow, when I'm working on this theme, is along the lines of:
- Run this command, and wait for the browser window to open.
- alt+tab gets me back to my text editor.
- Make changes to some files and save those changes.
- alt+tab switches to the browser.
- After a small delay, the change is reflected in the browser.
- If I want to make more changes, alt+tab and I'm back to my text editor.
- Repeat the previous 4 steps until happy.
\- @pradyunsg
:::
### Documentation Generation
```
nox -s docs
```
Generate the documentation for Furo into the `build/docs` folder. This (mostly) does the same thing as `nox -s docs-live`, except it invokes `sphinx-build` instead of [sphinx-autobuild].
## Release process
- Update the changelog
- Run `nox -s release`
- Once that command succeeds, you're done!
## Installing directly from GitHub
There are times when you might want to install the in-development version of Furo (mostly for testing that a fix actually does fix things).
This can be done by directly telling pip to install from Furo from GitHub. You likely want to install from a zip archive, to avoid cloning the entire Git history:
```sh
pip install https://github.com/pradyunsg/furo/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
```
[github flow]: https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/
[nox]: https://nox.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
[jinja2]: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com
[sass]: https://sass-lang.com
[webpack]: https://webpack.js.org/
[sphinx-autobuild]: https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-autobuild
[pre-commit]: https://pre-commit.com/