How to document a project with MkDocs 📹

Hello,

Welcome my third video tutorial, this time, on how to get started with MkDocs.

In this video I try to give you a basic overview of MkDocs and a configuration consisting of the material theme and search plugin.

Config

The MkDocs configuration used in the video.

site_name: My Cool Project Documentation
theme:
  name: material
  features:
    - search.suggest
    - search.highlight
    - content.tabs.link
plugins:
  - search
nav:
  - Introduction: "index.md"
  - Tutorial:
      - Tutorial Subsection: "pages/tutorial/tutorial_subsection.md"
  - About: "pages/about.md"
  - FAQ: "pages/faq.md"
markdown_extensions:
  - attr_list

Docker Deployment

When you're ready to deploy your documentation website, say in Docker with Nginx the following Dockerfile and Nginx default.conf should do.

Dockerfile

FROM python:3.9 as builder

WORKDIR /app

COPY . .

RUN pip install mkdocs mkdocs-material && mkdocs build

FROM nginx as deploy

# Copy the build to the nginx directory.
COPY --from=builder /app/site/ /usr/share/nginx/html/

# Copy the nginx configuration to the nginx config directory.
COPY default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/

EXPOSE 8080:8080/tcp

default.conf

server {
    listen 8080;
    root /usr/share/nginx/html/;
    index index.html;
}

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I thought that making videos will be easier that typing blog posts but to my surprise the difficulty is a bit higher. Fixing mistakes takes more time with videos and since I'm not that great of a presenter I struggle with presenting the content. Hopefully I will improve my skills with time and practice.

Thanks for reading! 🍻