Sphinx and extensions should already be installed in your environment. Set up the documentation folder and initialize sphinx:
mkdir docs
cd docs/
sphinx-quickstart
Typoe y, the name of your project, the author names, the project release (ie. 0.1), language en.
Open source/conf.py and put in
import os
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../../src/'))
Activate further extensions through
extensions = ['sphinx.ext.autodoc',
'myst_parser',
'sphinx.ext.napoleon'
]
in your conf.py.
Now you can quickstart the autobuild of the sphinx documentation:
sphinx-apidoc -o source/ ../src/
This is a step that often leads to problems later on, so if things don't work out for you let me know and I will take a look.
Type make html and you should then find a index.html file in your docs/build/html/ directory that you can preview using the VSCode HTML preview extension or by opening it from the file menu (opens the browser).
It should contain the name of your package, the author name and Index/Module index. Your modules should be linked here.
Very likely make html will return an error:
checking consistency... modules.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
You can add modules into the index.rst file to remedy this. But it will work either way.
It is possible that your modules will not be linked correctly. If so, we need to edit the modules.rst file or the respective module files in the source directory. Let me know and I will show you how.
Include readme in index.rst and any other files (license, installation, etc). Place readme.md and installation.md, etc, files in your docs/source/ folder to include them in the documentation.
Make sure the file requirements.txt contains the required libraries for your package to run.
Import your repo into readthedocs to have it publicly hosted.
Use GitHub pages to host your documentation.