simonw/docs cookiecutter template. Over the last few years I’ve settled on the combination of Sphinx, the Furo theme and the myst-parser extension (enabling Markdown in place of reStructuredText) as my documentation toolkit of choice, maintained in GitHub and hosted using ReadTheDocs.
My LLM and shot-scraper projects are two examples of that stack in action.
Today I wanted to spin up a new documentation site so I finally took the time to construct a cookiecutter template for my preferred configuration. You can use it like this:
pipx install cookiecutter
cookiecutter gh:simonw/docs
Or with uv:
uv tool run cookiecutter gh:simonw/docs
Answer a few questions:
[1/3] project (): shot-scraper
[2/3] author (): Simon Willison
[3/3] docs_directory (docs):
And it creates a docs/
directory ready for you to start editing docs:
cd docs
pip install -r requirements.txt
make livehtml
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