Change setup to use mkdocs with mkdocs-material instead of Sphinx

docs/Makefile

@@ -1,25 +1,16 @@
-# Makefile for Sphinx documentation
+# Makefile for MkDocs documentation
 #
 
 # You can set these variables from the command line.
-SPHINXOPTS    =
+MKDOCS       = mkdocs
-SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
+BUILDDIR     = site
-PAPER         =
-BUILDDIR      = build
 
-# User-friendly check for sphinx-build
+# User-friendly check for mkdocs
-ifeq ($(shell which $(SPHINXBUILD) >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $$?), 1)
+ifeq ($(shell which $(MKDOCS) >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $$?), 1)
-$(error The '$(SPHINXBUILD)' command was not found. Make sure you have Sphinx installed, then set the SPHINXBUILD environment variable to point to the full path of the '$(SPHINXBUILD)' executable. Alternatively you can add the directory with the executable to your PATH. If you don't have Sphinx installed, grab it from http://sphinx-doc.org/)
+$(error The '$(MKDOCS)' command was not found. Make sure you have MkDocs installed with 'pip install mkdocs mkdocs-material', then make sure the mkdocs executable is in your PATH.)
 endif
 
-# Internal variables.
+.PHONY: help clean html serve build
-PAPEROPT_a4     = -D latex_paper_size=a4
-PAPEROPT_letter = -D latex_paper_size=letter
-ALLSPHINXOPTS   = -d $(BUILDDIR)/doctrees $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) source
-# the i18n builder cannot share the environment and doctrees with the others
-I18NSPHINXOPTS  = $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) source
-
-.PHONY: help clean html dirhtml singlehtml pickle json htmlhelp qthelp devhelp epub latex latexpdf text man changes linkcheck doctest gettext
 
 help:
 	@echo "Please use \`make <target>' where <target> is one of"

docs/README.md

@@ -10,20 +10,26 @@ Compilation into HTML
 
 To compile this documentation :
 
-1. Install [sphinx-doc](http://sphinx-doc.org)
+1. Install [MkDocs](https://www.mkdocs.org/) and MkDocs Material
     ``` bash
             $ virtualenv .venv # creation of the virtual env (only the first time)
             $ source .venv/bin/activate # activate the virtual env
     (.venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt
     ```
 2. Install submodules : $ git submodule update --init;
-3. run `make html` from the root directory
+3. run `make html` or `mkdocs build` from the root directory
-4. The base file is located on build/html/index.html
+4. The base file is located on site/index.html
     ``` bash
-    $ cd build/html
+    $ cd site
     $ python -m http.server 8888 # will serve the site on the port 8888
     ```
 
+Alternatively, you can use the built-in development server:
+``` bash
+(.venv) $ mkdocs serve
+```
+This will start a development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ with live reload.
+
 Contribute
 ===========
 

docs/mkdocs.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+site_name: Chill Documentation
+site_description: Documentation for Chill - A free software for social workers
+site_url: https://docs.chill.social
+repo_url: https://gitlab.com/Chill-project/chill-bundles
+repo_name: Chill-project/chill-bundles
+
+docs_dir: source
+
+copyright: Copyright © 2014-2024 Champs-Libres Cooperative SCRLFS - GNU Free Documentation License v1.3
+
+theme:
+  name: material
+  language: en
+  features:
+    - navigation.tabs
+    - navigation.tabs.sticky
+    - navigation.sections
+    - navigation.expand
+    - navigation.path
+    - navigation.top
+    - search.highlight
+    - search.share
+    - search.suggest
+    - toc.follow
+    - content.code.copy
+    - content.code.annotate
+
+  palette:
+    # Palette toggle for light mode
+    - scheme: default
+      primary: blue
+      accent: blue
+      toggle:
+        icon: material/brightness-7
+        name: Switch to dark mode
+
+    # Palette toggle for dark mode
+    - scheme: slate
+      primary: blue
+      accent: blue
+      toggle:
+        icon: material/brightness-4
+        name: Switch to light mode
+
+  font:
+    text: Roboto
+    code: Roboto Mono
+
+plugins:
+  - search
+  - autorefs
+
+markdown_extensions:
+  - admonition
+  - pymdownx.details
+  - pymdownx.superfences
+  - pymdownx.highlight:
+      anchor_linenums: true
+      line_spans: __span
+      pygments_lang_class: true
+  - pymdownx.inlinehilite
+  - pymdownx.snippets
+  - pymdownx.tabbed:
+      alternate_style: true
+  - pymdownx.tasklist:
+      custom_checkbox: true
+  - toc:
+      permalink: true
+  - tables
+  - attr_list
+  - md_in_html
+
+nav:
+  - Home: index.md
+  - Installation:
+    - installation/index.md
+    - Development: installation/installation-development.md
+    - Production: installation/installation-production.md
+    - Document Storage: installation/document-storage.md
+    - Load Addresses: installation/load-addresses.md
+    - Production Setup: installation/prod.md
+    - Calendar SMS: installation/prod-calendar-sms-sending.md
+    - MS Graph Configuration: installation/msgraph-configure.md
+    - Enable Collabora: installation/enable-collabora-for-dev.md
+  - Development:
+    - development/index.md
+    - Access Control: development/access_control_model.md
+    - API: development/api.md
+    - Assets: development/assets.md
+    - Code Quality: development/code-quality.md
+    - Create Bundle: development/create-a-new-bundle.md
+    - Cronjobs: development/cronjob.md
+    - CRUD: development/crud.md
+    - Database Principles: development/database-principles.md
+    - Embeddable Comments: development/embeddable-comments.md
+    - Entity Info: development/entity-info.md
+    - ESLint: development/es-lint.md
+    - Exports: development/exports.md
+    - FAQ: development/FAQ.md
+    - Forms: development/forms.md
+    - Localisation: development/localisation.md
+    - Logging: development/logging.md
+    - Manual:
+      - development/manual/index.md
+      - Routing and Menus: development/manual/routing-and-menus.md
+    - Menus: development/menus.md
+    - Messages to Users: development/messages-to-users.md
+    - Migrations: development/migrations.md
+    - Pagination: development/pagination.md
+    - Render Entity: development/render-entity.md
+    - Routing: development/routing.md
+    - Run Tests: development/run-tests.md
+    - Searching: development/searching.md
+    - Timelines: development/timelines.md
+    - Useful Snippets: development/useful-snippets.md
+    - User Interface:
+      - CSS Classes: development/user-interface/css-classes.md
+      - JS Functions: development/user-interface/js-functions.md
+      - Layout Template: development/user-interface/layout-template-usage.md
+      - Widgets: development/user-interface/widgets.md
+  - Bundles:
+    - bundles/index.md
+    - Activity: bundles/activity.md
+    - Custom Fields: bundles/custom-fields.md
+    - Event: bundles/event.md
+    - Group: bundles/group.md
+    - LDAP: bundles/ldap.md
+    - Main: bundles/main.md
+    - Person: bundles/person.md
+    - Report: bundles/report.md
+
+extra:
+  social:
+    - icon: fontawesome/brands/gitlab
+      link: https://gitlab.com/Chill-project
+    - icon: fontawesome/solid/comments
+      link: https://app.element.io/#/room/#chill-social-admin:matrix.org

docs/requirements.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-docutils==0.13.1
+mkdocs>=1.5.0
-Pygments==2.2.0
+mkdocs-material>=9.4.0
-sphinx==1.8.5
+pymdown-extensions>=10.3.0
-Jinja2<3.1
+mkdocs-autorefs>=0.5.0
-git+https://github.com/fabpot/sphinx-php.git@v2.0.2#egg_name=sphinx-php
-jsx-lexer===0.0.8
-sphinx_rtd_theme==0.5.0