We provide two main ways to run the docs. Both use nox which has a noxfile.py at the root of the repository. Running the docs with nox -s docs will start up an iteractive session which will rebuild the docs any time a file is modified. Using nox -s docs_in_docker on the other hand, will build a docker image and run the docs from there. The latter command mimics how the docs will behave in production. As such, if any changes to the core of the documentation are made (i.e. to non-*.rst files), then you should run a manual test of the documentation using the docs_in_docker session.

If you with to build and run the docs by hand you need to perform two commands, each being run from the root of the repository:

• sphinx-build -b html docs/source docs/build
• python scripts/run_docs.py

The first command constructs the static HTML and any Javascript. The latter actually runs the web server that serves the content.