ownCloud Documentation UI

The docs-ui repository is a custom version of the Antora Default UI, for the Antora version of the ownCloud documentation.

Table of Contents

• Contributing
• Prerequisites
  • Git
  • Node
  • Yarn
  • Install Dependencies
  • Add Packages
• Prepared Yarn Commands
• Preview
  • Preview Changes Using the ownCloud Documentation
  • Previewing Changes using a Demo Antora Build

Contributing

If you want to make changes, create a "feature" branch off of master, make the required changes, and then create a Pull Request (PR) against the master branch. If the PR is accepted and merged, a new ui-bundle.zip package file will be created and published to https://minio.owncloud.com/documentation/ui-bundle.zip as part of the build pipeline.

Prerequisites

To preview the UI changes or to create a local version of a ui-bundle.zip, you need to install the following software on your computer.

• git (command: git)
• Node (command: node)
• Gulp CLI (command: gulp)
• Yarn (command: yarn)

git

First, make sure you have git installed.

git --version

If git is not installed, download and install the git package for your system.

Node

Next, make sure that you have Node installed.

node --version

If this command fails with an error, you don't have Node installed. While you can install Node from the official packages, we strongly recommend that you use NVM (Node Version Manager) to install and manage Node.

Follow the NVM installation instructions to set up NVM on your machine. Once you've installed NVM, open a new terminal and install Node using the following command:

nvm ls-remote | grep "Latest LTS"

         v4.9.1   (Latest LTS: Argon)
        v6.17.1   (Latest LTS: Boron)
        v8.17.0   (Latest LTS: Carbon)
       v10.24.1   (Latest LTS: Dubnium)
      v12.22.12   (Latest LTS: Erbium)
       v14.21.3   (Latest LTS: Fermium)
       v16.20.2   (Latest LTS: Gallium)
       v18.18.2   (Latest LTS: Hydrogen)
       v20.10.0   (Latest LTS: Iron)

Then install a suitable LTS version. You can install as many versions as you like or need, see example below.

nvm install 16.13.2

List the installed versions

nvm ls
       v10.23.0
       v12.18.2
       v14.18.3
        v15.5.1
->     v16.13.2
         system
default -> 16.13.2 (-> v16.13.2)
...

Important: For docs, DO NOT use a version above v10.23.0 and below v14.17.0 as it may later conflict with other dependencies especially with the yarn preview command where you will get warnings and it may not work as expected.

Info: The backend to push to the web also uses node v16, see the .drone.star file. It is recommended to stay with the same release if possible.

Switch to a specific installed version of Node at any time, use the following command:

nvm use 16.13.2

Important: If you have additional concurrent terminals open, you must close these terminals first and reopen them to use the new setup.

To make a particular Node version default in new terminals, type:

nvm alias default 16.13.2

Now that you have Node installed, you can proceed with installing the Gulp CLI and Yarn.

Yarn

Your system must have installed yarn. If this is not the case, install yarn following the installation notes on the referenced site.

Install Dependencies

Finally, run the following command to install all dependencies:

yarn install

Add Packages

If a new package needs to be added, type the following:

yarn add <package-name>

Prepared Yarn Commands

To see all prepared yarn commands, run the following command yarn run. This will output all commands with their settings, though this makes readability not easy. See the yarn documentation for more information.

Here is the list of commands and when to use them:

• yarn bundle
  Generate a new ui-bundle.zip file for local use
• yarn lint
  Lint the UI bundle definition
• yarn preview
  Preview the bundle using the gulp. This previews a demo Antora build.

Preview

Preview Changes Using the ownCloud Documentation

If you want to preview your changes to the UI using the ownCloud documentation instead of demo content then you need to build a local copy of ui-bundle.zip and use it when generating the ownCloud documentation in your local development machine.

• First create a local ui-bundle.zip with the command described above.
• Then change into the respective documentation repository and run yarn antora-dev-bundle.
  See the Generating the Documentation description for more details.

Previewing Changes using a Demo Antora Build

The following example runs a demo Antora build (not ownCloud) for the documentation site which can be accessed on your local development machine at http://localhost:5252.

To view your changes as you are working on them, run the following command:

yarn preview