Documentation Update - Migrated to Gitbook

[bucknall]

Hi Everyone!

Quick update - We've migrated our documentation over from our old templating engine (Sphinx) to a new markdown tool called GitBook. You can find it here https://docs.pycom.io, the same address as previously!

The advantages are as follows:

• Better searching, updates live in the client's browser
• Easier to navigate (users can click left/right arrows to change page)
• Community Contribution
  • If you mouse over some text a '+' will appear allowing you to create a discussion around a block of text/code in the documentation (you will need to sign into GitHub for this!)
  • The docs are now written in standard GitHub Markdown and should be easier for the community to suggest changes via discussion or by pull requests
• Extendable via plugins (i.e. I'm working on a night mode for those of you who prefer dark documentation, aka no bright backgrounds!)

The new docs have superseded the old documentation which can still be found at https://github.com/pycom/pycom-micropython-sigfox/tree/master/docs/pycom_esp32 but you will have to install Sphinx/run the build scripts locally.

Please let me know your thoughts as the documentation is there to aid and assist you, the community!

Thanks!

Alex

[this.wiederkehr]

Well, a lot of links are not yet functional e.g. try to open the pinout pdf on https://docs.pycom.io/chapter/datasheets/boards/pytrack.html.

[bucknall]

@this.wiederkehr Yep! Just caught this, looks like they weren't included on the initial push :) Fixing now!

[TCB]

There seems to be a problem with the search function. Yesterday I searched on "wake" and got lots of returns with the word "make". Tried the same thing today and just got a whole bunch or returns of words starting with"W".

I am using Chrome as the browser.

[robert-hh]

@TCB It looks like there is a kind of fuzzy search implemented, which includes similar sounding words, if the searched item is not found, for example:
wake finds make, take
make finds make only
take finds take only
lake finds make take, later, like, ..

So it's more a feature than a bug.

[bucknall]

@robert-hh I'm fine tuning our search - we're using algolia to optimise this so it takes a little time to build up the queries etc.

Thanks!

[BetterAuto]

Is there any way to get Google to update? Sometimes the built-in search is inadequate.

Here's an example search.

As a workaround I've used docs.micropython.org.