Documator is an automatic, active-webserver documentation deployment solution for julia. This application builds automatic documentation referencing, searching, and special component interpolation -- all built on the back of the Toolips web-development framework.

adding

Step one is adding the package. This package will be a dependency of a project which contains all of your documentation, so we start by creating a new environment. Let's say that we wanted to document Toolips and ToolipsServables in from the toolips ecosystem. We would add documator, plus both of those packages.

julia> ]
pkg> generate TLDocServer
pkg> activate TLDocServer
pkg> add Toolips
pkg> add ToolipsServables
pkg> add Documator

setup

After we have an environment with the modules we want to build for loaded, we will first want to call Documator.generate(groups::Pair{String, Vector{Module}} ...). This allows us to group our modules according to ecosystem. This will a config.toml alongside a bunch of directories for our project. From here on, we are able to call generate(... in this same directory to add additional documentation. After this, we simply need to provide our Module to read_doc_config before calling start! on documator.

function start_project(ip::IP4 = "192.168.1.10":8000, path::String = pwd())
    docloader = Documator.docloader
    docloader.dir = path
    docloader.docsystems = Documator.read_doc_config(path, TLDocServer)
    Documator.load_docs!(TLDocServer, docloader)
    start!(Documator, ip)
end

From here, we can add md to the folders in modules/ to add more documentation, while a reference and doc interpolation are generated for us.

• A great example of a precreated and deployed, working version of this would be ChifiDocs
• A special components vector may also be exported from your module to load those components into interpolation for your markdown files.

module MyDocumatorServer
using Documator
using Documator.Toolips.Components
using ModToDoc

function start_project(ip::IP4 = "192.168.1.10":8000, path::String = pwd())
    docloader = Documator.docloader
    docloader.dir = path
    docloader.docsystems = Documator.read_doc_config(path, MyDocumatorServer)
    Documator.load_docs!(MyDocumatorServer, docloader)
    start!(Documator, ip)
end

components = []

push!(components, a("sample", text = "this was interpolated"))
export components
end