Sauce Labs Docs

This repo contains the markdown documentation for Sauce Labs. To learn about how the system works, check out this blog post.

Editing Markdown

Every markdown document in the markdown folder of this repo has a required metadata section which should be valid a JavaScript object containing the title(used in the nav, title section, URL, search results, and as part of the naming conventions below), description(used in the meta description), category(used in the nav, URL and as part of the naming conventions), and the index(used to determine the document's position in the navigation relative to other documents in the same category). You can also optionally include an image for a doc which will be used in the nav, search results, and title section on the doc's page. The supported version of markdown is GitHub flavored markdown as described here.

Naming conventions

All markdown file names should be lowercase, dasherized, and be placed inside the corresponding category folder. For example a doc with the category Tutorials entitled Sample Tutorial would be located at markdown/tutorials/sample-tutorial.md. Images relating to docs are found in the same relative location as markdown files. A main doc image for Sample Tutorial would be located at images/tutorials/sample-tutorial.png while an image in the content of the doc would be located at images/tutorials/sample-tutorial/content-image.png.

Custom Markdown processing

Any code block containing sauceUsername or sauceAccessKey will either get replaced by the logged-in user's credentials or be replaced by YOUR_USERNAME, and YOUR_ACCESS_KEY respectively. If the user is logged out, there will be a button present when hovering over code blocks prompting the user to login. Additionally, code blocks with a programming language defined will have a button present on hover to allow users to copy code to their clipboard.

Linkable heading tags

Each heading tag is turned into a fragment identifier so that users can link into sections within docs. Because of this, be wary of changing section headings because you might break linking between docs.

Running tests locally

To run the tests locally, first clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/saucelabs/docs.git && cd docs

Then run the following command to install the local node.js dependencies:

npm install

Note: this assumes you have node.js installed.

If you don't have Grunt installed, run the following to command to install it globally:

npm install -g grunt-cli

Now you can test your changes by running the following command:

npm test

Non-dev contributors

Work should be done in branches so that it can be reviewed before being deployed. Follow the below instructions to improve the docs without using the command line:

1. Download GitHub for Mac or Windows.
2. Click Clone in Desktop in the right nav of this repo above.
3. Make a branch from master.
4. Make changes.
5. Push branch changes

When you have a new set of changes, change back to the master branch, sync it, then start at #3 above. The goal is to have branches be a short-lived related set of changes. Feel free to make many small branches!