Practicalli Engineering Playbook

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Creative commons license

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 ShareAlike License (including images & stylesheets).

Overview

A collection of plays that detail common tasks undertaken by Engineers

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are most welcome although it is the maintainers discression as to if they are applicable. Please detail issues as much as you can. Pull requests are simpler to work with when they are specific to a page or at most a section. The smaller the change the quicker it is to review and merge.

Please read the detailed Practicalli contributing page before raising an issue or pull request to avoid disappointment.

• Current Issues
• Current pull requests

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GitHub Actions

The megalinter GitHub actions will run when a pull request is created,checking basic markdown syntax.

A review of the change will be carried out by the Practicalli team and the PR merged if the change is acceptable.

The Publish Book GitHub action will run when PR's are merged into main (or the Practicalli team pushes changes to the default branch).

Publish book workflow installs Material for MkDocs version 9

Local development

Install mkdocs version 9 using the Python pip package manager

pip install mkdocs-material=="9.*"

Install the plugins used by the Practicalli site using Pip (these are also installed in the GitHub Action workflow)

pip3 install mkdocs-material mkdocs-callouts mkdocs-glightbox mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin mkdocs-redirects pillow cairosvg

pillow and cairosvg python packages are required for Social Cards

Fork the GitHub repository and clone that fork to your computer,

git clone https://github.com/<your-github-account>/<repository>.git

Run a local server from the root of the cloned project

make docs

The website will open at http://localhost:8000

If making smaller changes, then only rebuild the content that changes, speeding up the local development process

make docs-changed

NOTE: navigation changes may not be correctly reflected without reloading the page in the web browser or carrying out a full make docs build