Datum Cloud Documentation

This repository contains the assets required to build the Datum Documentation Website.

Running the website

Use hugo directly

Building and running the site locally requires a recent extended version of Hugo. You can find out more about how to install Hugo for your environment in the Docsy Getting started guide.

Once you've made your working copy of the site repo, from the repo root folder, run:

hugo server

Run hugo in a container

You can run the docs site inside a Docker container, the container runs with a volume bound to the docs folder. This approach doesn't require you to install any dependencies other than Docker Desktop on Windows and Mac, and Docker Compose on Linux.

1. Build the docker image

   docker-compose build

2. Run the built image

   docker-compose up

   NOTE: You can run both commands at once with docker-compose up --build.

3. Verify that the service is working.

   Open your web browser and type http://localhost:1313 in your navigation bar, This opens a local instance of the docs homepage. You can now make changes to the documentation and those changes will immediately show up in your browser after you save.

Cleanup

To stop Docker Compose, on your terminal window, press Ctrl + C.

To remove the produced images run:

docker-compose rm

For more information see the Docker Compose documentation.

Troubleshooting

As you run the website locally, you may run into the following error:

$ hugo server
WARN 2023/06/27 16:59:06 Module "project" is not compatible with this Hugo version; run "hugo mod graph" for more information.
Start building sites …
hugo v0.101.0-466fa43c16709b4483689930a4f9ac8add5c9f66+extended windows/amd64 BuildDate=2022-06-16T07:09:16Z VendorInfo=gohugoio
Error: Error building site: "C:\Users\foo\path\to\docsy-example\content\en\_index.md:5:1": failed to extract shortcode: template for shortcode "blocks/cover" not found
Built in 27 ms

This error occurs if you are running an outdated version of Hugo. As of docsy theme version v0.7.0, hugo version 0.110.0 or higher is required. See this section of the user guide for instructions on how to install Hugo.

Or you may be confronted with the following error:

$ hugo server

INFO 2021/01/21 21:07:55 Using config file:
Building sites … INFO 2021/01/21 21:07:55 syncing static files to /
Built in 288 ms
Error: Error building site: TOCSS: failed to transform "scss/main.scss" (text/x-scss): resource "scss/scss/main.scss_9fadf33d895a46083cdd64396b57ef68" not found in file cache

This error occurs if you have not installed the extended version of Hugo. See this section of the user guide for instructions on how to install Hugo.

Or you may encounter the following error:

$ hugo server

Error: failed to download modules: binary with name "go" not found

This error occurs if the go programming language is not available on your system. See this section of the user guide for instructions on how to install go.