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# Updating the docs
If you want to open a PR on Gaia to update the documentation, please follow the guidelines in the [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](https://github.com/cosmos/gaia/tree/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
## Docs Build Workflow
The documentation for Gaia is hosted at:
- https://hub.cosmos.network/docs/
built from the files in this (`/docs`) directory for [master](https://github.com/cosmos/gaia/tree/master/docs)
### How It Works
There is a CircleCI job listening for changes in the `/docs` directory, on both
the `master` and `develop` branches. Any updates to files in this directory
on those branches will automatically trigger a website deployment. Under the hood,
the private website repository has a `make build-docs` target consumed by a CircleCI job in that repo.
## README
The [README.md](./README.md) is also the landing page for the documentation
on the website. During the Jenkins build, the current commit is added to the bottom
of the README.
## Links
**NOTE:** Strongly consider the existing links - both within this directory
and to the website docs - when moving or deleting files.
Relative links should be used nearly everywhere, having discovered and weighed the following:
### Relative
Where is the other file, relative to the current one?
- works both on GitHub and for the VuePress build
- confusing / annoying to have things like: `../../../../myfile.md`
- requires more updates when files are re-shuffled
### Absolute
Where is the other file, given the root of the repo?
- works on GitHub, doesn't work for the VuePress build
- this is much nicer: `/docs/hereitis/myfile.md`
- if you move that file around, the links inside it are preserved (but not to it, of course)
### Full
The full GitHub URL to a file or directory. Used occasionally when it makes sense
to send users to the GitHub.
## Building Locally
To build and serve the documentation locally, run:
```bash
npm install -g vuepress
```
then change the following line in the `config.js`:
```js
base: "/docs/",
```
to:
```js
base: "/",
```
Finally, go up one directory to the root of the repo and run:
```bash
# from root of repo
vuepress build docs
cd dist/docs
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
```
then navigate to localhost:8080 in your browser.
## Search
We are using [Algolia](https://www.algolia.com) to power full-text search. This uses a public API search-only key in the `config.js` as well as a [cosmos_network.json](https://github.com/algolia/docsearch-configs/blob/master/configs/cosmos_network.json) configuration file that we can update with PRs.
## Consistency
Because the build processes are identical (as is the information contained herein), this file should be kept in sync as
much as possible with its [counterpart in the Tendermint Core repo](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/docs/DOCS_README.md).
### Update and Build the RPC docs
1. Execute the following command at the root directory to install the swagger-ui generate tool.
```bash
make tools
```
2. Edit API docs
1. Directly Edit API docs manually: `cmd/gaiacli/swagger-ui/swagger.yaml`.
2. Edit API docs within the [Swagger Editor](https://editor.swagger.io/). Please refer to this [document](https://swagger.io/docs/specification/2-0/basic-structure/) for the correct structure in `.yaml`.
3. Download `swagger.yaml` and replace the old `swagger.yaml` under fold `cmd/gaiacli/swagger-ui`.
4. Compile gaiacli
```bash
make install
```