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Setting up README transclusion
Rand McKinney edited this page Nov 8, 2017
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As explained in Including READMEs from other repositories, the doc site can "transclude" or reuse READMEs from other repos.
Here is a closed PR that was never landed that shows an example for LoopBack 4: https://github.com/strongloop/loopback.io/pull/499/files
To set this up for a new LoopBack release, do the following:
- Add a new shell script, for example
update-readmes-lb4.sh
that lists all the READMEs to be used. It doesn't have to be a complete list: You can add more later.- Make sure to set the destination appropriately, e.g. for LB4
DEST="pages/en/lb4/readmes/$repo.md"
- Make sure to set the destination appropriately, e.g. for LB4
- Update
jenkinsfile
to call the new script; specifically:- Add to the "download updates" stage:
stage('download updates') { sh './update-readmes.sh' sh './update-community-readmes.sh' sh './update-readmes-lb4.sh' }
- Add to the "commit updates" stage:
sh 'git add pages/en/lb4/readmes'
- Add to the "download updates" stage:
- Create a new folder to hold the READMEs, e.g.
/pages/en/lb4/readmes
- Create a page for each README. For example, suppose you want to use the README from loopback-next-example. The page itself may not have any content, but by using the "readme" layout, it grabs the content from the README file. Here's what the front-matter would look like:
--- title: "LoopBack 4 microservice example" lang: en layout: readme source: loopback-next-example keywords: LoopBack4 tags: example_app sidebar: lb4_sidebar permalink: /doc/en/lb4/LoopBack4-microservice-example.html summary: Microservice example for LoopBack 4 ---
- Be sure to add the new pages (e.g.
LoopBack4-microservice-example.html
) to the sidebar navigation YAML file.