Development and documentation

As we made the choice not to store previous versions of the documentation online, you may want to build a local version of the documentation for the version of the code you are currently using.

To do that you can use the following resources to quickly be able to do it.

Quickly use the source

If you want to build the documentation, only using a virtual environment and the following should be enough. The documentation will be available at doc/_build/html/index.html:
```
pip install nbsphinx sphinx-autoapi sphinx_rtd_theme
cd doc && make html
```
If you want to test exo_k, only using a virtual environment and the following should be enough:
```
pip install pytest
pytest
```
If you install exo_k with pip install -e . and you get a message of this kind: ERROR: File “setup.py” or “setup.cfg” not found, you need to upgrade pip:
```
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
```

Using Poetry

Whether you want to contribute to exo_k, build the documentation for your local version or ensure that the tests passed, another way is to use poetry to setup your virtual environment. All requirements are listed inside pyproject.toml and poetry.lock. They ensure that everyone use the same dependencies.

After cloning the repository, you only need to execute the following command to create your environment and install the dependencies:

poetry install

After that you can spawn a shell with poetry shell or just run a command with poetry run command.

Documentation

The documentation can be produced with:

cd doc && poetry run make

If you are editing it, you can locally serve it and refreshed on change with the following:

cd doc && poetry run make livehtml

The following extensions can be added to jupyter to match the wanted behavior:

@jlab-enhanced/cell-toolbar
@jupyterlab/celltags
@epi2melabs/jupyterlab-autorun-cells

You can install them using the following syntax:

jupyter-labextension install <extension-name>

Tests

You can easily run the tests with pytest:

poetry run pytest

You can enable a more verbose output with the flag -vv, pytest-clarity provide a better output in this verbose mode.

To run a specific test, just add the path to the test file as an argument.

Poetry recap

You can read the documentation of poetry at this address .

We use the latest version available to this day (1.2.0.b2) of poetry. It’s in preview, so if you installed it, you can use the following command to migrate to it:

poetry self update --preview 1.2.0.b2

You can get the version of poetry with:

poetry --version

You can add a package in the following manner:

poetry add <important-pkg>
poetry add -G dev <pkg-by-the-devs>

After you modify pyproject.toml, to manually add dependencies for example, lock it like that:

poetry lock

To install the environment defined:

poetry install