FSharp.Compiler.Service documentation generation

https://fsharp.github.io/fsharp-compiler-docs

Contributing to Library Content

To improve the content of the FSharp.Compiler.Service library documentation, contribute to the XML /// documentation in the signature files (*.fsi) in the FSharp.Compiler.Service implementation.

• Fork and clone https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp locally, see below

• Contribute to src/fsharp directory and src/fsharp directory and submit work to main branch of dotnet/fsharp

• Once accepted your work will be published through a rebuild here. A rebuild is triggered daily at 17:30 UTC or you can trigger it yourself by submitting a dummy change.

The docs are generated by using fsdocs tool from FSharp.Formatting.

Build steps

Eventually the build will just be

dotnet tool restore
dotnet restore FSharp.Compiler.Service
dotnet fsdocs build

For now, we make a fresh build of FSharp.Compiler.Service.

(start in fsharp-compiler-docs)
dotnet restore FSharp.Compiler.Service
dotnet tool restore

(make fsharp-compiler-docs/fsharp)
git clone https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp --depth 1 -b main

(build fsharp-compiler-docs/fsharp) 
pushd fsharp
dotnet build src/Compiler/FSharp.Compiler.Service.fsproj /p:BUILDING_USING_DOTNET=true
popd

Then do iterative development using:

(from fsharp-compiler-docs)
dotnet fsdocs watch --sourcefolder fsharp  --input fsharp/docs

CI Pipeline

This repo is published via GitHub Actions. On each push to main, the docs are built, and the outputs (which are written to the output directory by fsdocs) are pushed to the gh-pages branch. This repo is configured to host using GitHub Pages from this branch.