Docsy is a Hugo theme module for technical documentation sites, providing easy site navigation, structure, and more. This Docsy Example Project uses the Docsy theme component as a hugo module and provides a skeleton documentation structure for you to use. You can clone/copy this project and edit it with your own content, or use it as an example.
In this project, the Docsy theme component is pulled in as a Hugo module, together with other module dependencies:
$ hugo mod graph
hugo: collected modules in 566 ms
hugo: collected modules in 578 ms
github.com/google/docsy-example github.com/google/docsy@v0.7.1
github.com/google/docsy-example github.com/google/docsy/dependencies@v0.7.1
github.com/google/docsy/dependencies@v0.7.1 github.com/twbs/bootstrap@v5.2.3+incompatible
github.com/google/docsy/dependencies@v0.7.1 github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome@v0.0.0-20230327165841-0698449d50f2
You can find detailed theme instructions in the Docsy user guide.
This Docsy Example Project is hosted on Netlify at example.docsy.dev. You can view deploy logs from the deploy section of the project’s Netlify dashboard, or this alternate dashboard.
This is not an officially supported Google product. This project is currently maintained.
A simple way to get started is to use this project as a template, which gives you a site project that is set up and ready to use. To do this:
Use the dropdown for switching branches/tags to change to the latest released tag v0.7.1
Click Use this template.
Select a name for your new project and click Create repository from template.
Make your own local working copy of your new repo using git clone, replacing https://github.com/me/example.git with your repo’s web URL:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/me/example.git
You can now edit your own versions of the site’s source files.
If you want to do SCSS edits and want to publish these, you need to install PostCSS
npm install
Building and running the site locally requires a recent extended version of Hugo.
You can find out more about how to install Hugo for your environment in our
Getting started guide.
Once you’ve made your working copy of the site repo, from the repo root folder, run:
hugo server
You can run docsy-example inside a Docker
container, the container runs with a volume bound to the docsy-example
folder. This approach doesn’t require you to install any dependencies other
than Docker Desktop on
Windows and Mac, and Docker Compose
on Linux.
Build the docker image
docker-compose build
Run the built image
docker-compose up
NOTE: You can run both commands at once with
docker-compose up --build.
Verify that the service is working.
Open your web browser and type http://localhost:1313 in your navigation bar,
This opens a local instance of the docsy-example homepage. You can now make
changes to the docsy example and those changes will immediately show up in your
browser after you save.
To stop Docker Compose, on your terminal window, press Ctrl + C.
To remove the produced images run:
docker-compose rm
For more information see the Docker Compose documentation.
As you run the website locally, you may run into the following error:
$ hugo server
WARN 2023/06/27 16:59:06 Module "project" is not compatible with this Hugo version; run "hugo mod graph" for more information.
Start building sites …
hugo v0.101.0-466fa43c16709b4483689930a4f9ac8add5c9f66+extended windows/amd64 BuildDate=2022-06-16T07:09:16Z VendorInfo=gohugoio
Error: Error building site: "C:\Users\foo\path\to\docsy-example\content\en\_index.md:5:1": failed to extract shortcode: template for shortcode "blocks/cover" not found
Built in 27 ms
This error occurs if you are running an outdated version of Hugo. As of docsy theme version v0.7.0, hugo version 0.110.0 or higher is required.
See this section of the user guide for instructions on how to install Hugo.
Or you may be confronted with the following error:
$ hugo server
INFO 2021/01/21 21:07:55 Using config file:
Building sites … INFO 2021/01/21 21:07:55 syncing static files to /
Built in 288 ms
Error: Error building site: TOCSS: failed to transform "scss/main.scss" (text/x-scss): resource "scss/scss/main.scss_9fadf33d895a46083cdd64396b57ef68" not found in file cache
This error occurs if you have not installed the extended version of Hugo. See this section of the user guide for instructions on how to install Hugo.
Or you may encounter the following error:
$ hugo server
Error: failed to download modules: binary with name "go" not found
This error occurs if you have not installed the go programming language on your system.
See this section of the user guide for instructions on how to install go.