nextstrain-sphinx-theme

Nextstrain Sphinx Theme

A Sphinx theme_ for Nextstrain's documentation, based on Read The Docs' default theme (sphinx_rtd_theme).

Installation

This theme is distributed on PyPI as nextstrain-sphinx-theme_ and can be installed with pip:

.. code:: console

$ python3 -m pip install nextstrain-sphinx-theme

To use the theme in your Sphinx project, you will need to add the following to your conf.py file:

.. code:: python

html_theme = "nextstrain-sphinx-theme"

This theme is based on sphinx_rtd_theme_ and accepts most of the same configuration options_ settable via html_theme_option and a few additional options as well:

:logo: Boolean determining if the Nextstrain logo should be displayed. Defaults to true.

:logo_link: URL to use for the logo's link. Defaults to https://docs.nextstrain.org.

:logo_only: Ignored. Inherited from sphinx_rtd_theme_. Instead, the project name and version info will not be displayed (thus showing only the logo) when subproject is true.

:subproject: Boolean determining if this is a subproject of the main Nextstrain documentation project on https://docs.nextstrain.org. Defaults to true.

If your project wants to display its own logo, just set Sphinx's html_logo to point to the image file in your Sphinx project.

.. code:: python

html_logo = "_static/your-logo.png"

This will automatically take precedence over the default Nextstrain logo provided by the theme.

Development

.. code:: bash

python3 -m pip install -e .
make clean # not always needed, but better to be cautious
make html
open build/html/index.html

Releasing

• Make sure all your changes have been commited to the main branch.

• Add a commit which describes the changes from the previous version to CHANGES.rst and updates the version number in lib/nextstrain/sphinx/theme/VERSION.

• Tag this commit with the version number, e.g. git tag -a 2020.4 -m "version 2020.4".

• Push the commit and tag to GitHub, e.g. git push origin main 2020.4.

• Publish to PyPI by invoking a GitHub Actions workflow:

  • Go to the workflow: publish.yml <https://github.com/nextstrain/sphinx-theme/actions/workflows/publish.yml>_.

  • Select Run workflow. In the new menu:

    • Select Use workflow from > Tags > new version number (e.g. 2020.4).
    • Set PyPI instance for publishing as PyPI (default) or TestPyPI. More info <https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/using-testpypi/>_
    • Select Run workflow.

.. _Sphinx theme: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/theming.html .. _Read The Docs: https://readthedocs.org .. _sphinx_rtd_theme: https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme .. _nextstrain-sphinx-theme: https://pypi.org/project/nextstrain-sphinx-theme/ .. _configuration options: https://sphinx-rtd-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuring.html

Testing

PR test builds are available here: https://readthedocs.org/projects/nextstrain-sphinx-theme/builds/ and usually follow the following URL path convention: https://nextstrain--17.org.readthedocs.build/projects/sphinx-theme/en/17/ where 17 is the PR number