EspruinoDocs

Espruino Documentation and Code

This project generates the website and tutorial code for Espruino.com. This also contains the modules that can be required by the Espruino Web IDE. You can contribute to the site and standardised modules in this project.

Documentation files are written GitHub Markdown with additional metadata. Basically, a script that looks for the following (on the start of a line):

* KEYWORDS: Comma,Separated,List ; Defines keywords for this file
* APPEND_KEYWORD: Keyword        ; Append a list of pages that match the keyword
* USES: Comma,Separated,List  ; Defines parts that are used by the given tutorial
* APPEND_USES: part              ; Append a list of pages that have this part in their USES_PARTS list
* APPEND_JSDOC: filename         ; Append JavaScript documentation based on the JS in the given file
* APPEND_PINOUT: boardname       ; Append Pinout for the given board

It also looks for a title (second line, after copyright notices) which it uses to create the title of the HTML page (and of links to it).

There are a few extra bits too:

• [[My Page]] links to a page on the Espruino website
• [[http://youtu.be/VIDEOID]] puts a video on the page
• ![Image Title](MyFilename/foo.png) Adds an image. Images should be in a directory named after the filename of the file referencing them (or the same directory as the file referencing them)

It then converts the Markdown to HTML and shoves it on the Espruino website. Lovely!

JavaScript

Any .js files in examples have a webpage created that uses the comments as markdown, and then adds the code as a code block right at the end.

All other .js files are treated as modules. They are minified using Google's online closure compiler and the SIMPLE_OPTIMISATIONS flag. To get advanced optimisations, you must add the exact text @compilation_level ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS into the comments at the head of the file.

Build Requirements

Step 1: Obtain Espruino Source Code

Checked out the Espruino source at the same same level as EspruinoDocs folder. Assuming you're in the EspruinoDocs folder...

$ cd ..
$ git clone git@github.com:espruino/Espruino.git`
$ cd EspruinoDocs

Step 2: Install Node.js® and npm

If you have Node.js and npm installed skip this step.

If you haven't got Node.js JavaScript runtime installed or the JavaScript Package managers installed do so via the installation guides below.

• Windows Installation Guide
• Mac Installation Guide
• Linux Installation Guide

Step 3: Install Required Node Modules

In order to generate the documentation and view it you require several JavaScript packages. To install them issue the following command:

$ npm install

This will install all JavaScript dependancies.

Build Process

Currently they are two build scripts. One bash, one JavaScript.

The bash script does 3 things:

1. Uses the Espruino source code to generate the pinout diagrams. python is required
2. Builds the production site at ~/workspace/espruinowebsite
3. Builds Espruino specific modules and minifies the JavaScript code

The JavaScript build process just builds the documentation in the html folder.

You will have to run build.sh at least once if you want the build.js to work.

To Do a Full Build

Run:

$ ./build.sh

To Build Documentation Only

Note: You've had to have least ran the bash script once for this to build successfully.

Run:

$ npm run build

The output will be placed in the html directory.

View Generated Documentation

You can load a development version of the website locally. It will not look exactly like the production site but you can test your build and links.

$ npm start

Then load up a page in a browser: http://localhost:3040/EspruinoBoard

Troubleshooting

OS X

Set Maximum Open Files

On OSX, most likely the default amount of open files will be set too low. This may cause an error during the build, like: "Error: EMFILE, too many open files 'tasks/File Converter.md'"

Make sure you have at least 1024 for the value of open files.

$ ulimit -n       # see current limit

Increase the limit:

$ ulimit -n 1024  # increase to 1024