This repository serves as a UI Bundle for Antora.
Antora is a static site generator for documentation distributed across multiple source locations, with each component being able to have multiple versions of the documentation.
The styling of this documentation can be developed independently of the content that will be pulled from these remote repositories, and that is the purpose of this repository.
For more background on Antora, refer to the documentation
Clone this repository and follow the steps below to begin working on this UI.
From the root of this repository, run npm install to pull down all required 3rd party dependencies.
From the root of this repository, run gulp preview. A local version of the site with some mock
content will be available at http://localhost:3000.
Antora has what's called a "site generation pipeline" that is responsible for aggregating the documentation from the sources and subsequently outputting static HTML.
For the purposes of local development, there is a preview-src directory that gets used in combination
with a mock site generation process (defined in gulp.d/tasks/build-preview-pages.js).
The Antora framework exposes a UI Model to the handlebars templates. This
UI Model is mocked via a hard-coded yml file (preview-src/ui-model.yml).
Rather than pull content from remote sources, a single page (preview-src/index.adoc) is used for local development of this UI.
From the root of this repository, run gulp bundle. This will produce a UI bundle that can be consumed by the Antora
framework for styling the documentation. The artifact will be in the generated build directory and called ui-model.zip.
Once the preview site looks and feels as desired, you can create a Release in GitHub and attach the UI bundle as a release artifact.
The URL of this downloadable bundle can now be used in an Antora playbook to build a real documentation site.