All the docs related files (docs-app, doc-gen, content, etc) are now to be found inside the `/aio` folder. The related gulp tasks have been moved from the top level gulp file to a new one inside the `/aio` folder. The structure of the `/aio` folder now looks like: ``` /aio/ build/ # gulp tasks content/ #MARKDOWN FILES for devguides, cheatsheet, etc devguides/ cheatsheets/ transforms/ #dgeni packages, templates, etc src/ app/ assets/ content/ #HTML + JSON build artifacts produced by dgeni from /aio/content. #This dir is .gitignored-ed e2e/ #protractor tests for the doc viewer app node_modules/ #dependencies for both the doc viewer builds and the dgeni stuff #This dir is .gitignored-ed gulpfile.js #Tasks for generating docs and building & deploying the doc viewer ``` Closes #14361
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# Documentation Generation
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The dgeni tool is used to generate the documentation from the source files held in this repository.
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The documentation generation is configured by a dgeni package defined in `docs/angular.io-package/index.js`.
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This package, in turn requires a number of other packages, some are defined locally in the `docs` folder,
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such as `docs/cheatsheet-package` and `docs/content-package`, etc. And some are brought in from the
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`dgeni-packages` node modules, such as `jsdoc` and `nunjucks`.
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## Generating the docs
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To generate the documentation simply run `gulp docs` from the command line.
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## Testing the dgeni packages
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The local packages have unit tests that you can execute by running `gulp docs-test` from the command line.
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## What does it generate?
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The output from dgeni is written to files in the `dist/docs` folder.
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Notably this includes a partial HTML file for each "page" of the documentation, such as API pages and guides.
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It also includes JavaScript files that contain metadata about the documentation such as navigation data and
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keywords for building a search index.
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## Viewing the docs
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You can view the dummy demo app using a simple HTTP server hosting `dist/docs/index.html`
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