Updating the Theme

The theme for the docs is a custom version of the Material Design theme for MkDocs.

Check out the arundo-docs-theme repo to view the source code for the theme.

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Instructions

Here's how to update a doc site to use the latest version of the Material Design theme.

1. Open a command-line application.
2. Run the pip install --upgrade mkdocs-material --user command.
3. Note the version number for the update.
4. Open the package.json file.

5. Update the version number:

   {
   "name": "mkdocs-material",
   "version": "5.2.3",
   

6. Save the file.

7. Open the requirements.txt file.

8. Update the mkdocs-material requirement:

   mkdocs-material>=5.2.3
   

9. Save the file.

10. At the command-line, browse to the doc site directory.
11. Run the rm -fr node_modules command.
12. Run the npm run build command.
13. Run the mkdocs build command.

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Last update: June 26, 2020