📅 2025-01-26 — Session: Documentation and File Processing Enhancement
🕒 21:35–22:25
🏷️ Labels: Documentation, Python, Sphinx, Mkdocs, Beautifulsoup
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to enhance project documentation generation and file processing capabilities using various tools and scripts.
Key Activities
- Documentation Generation: Instructions for using Sphinx and MkDocs to verify and rebuild project documentation. This included command-line steps for generating updated HTML output.
- Search Configuration: Detailed how to enable and customize search functionality in MkDocs and Sphinx, with configuration examples.
- Documentation Tools Overview: Guidance on using tools like pdoc and Doxygen for documentation generation, including enabling search functionality.
- File Processing with Python: Developed Python scripts for combining HTML text files and extracting plain text from HTML using BeautifulSoup. This included removing unwanted links and enhancing readability.
Achievements
- Successfully documented the process for generating and updating project documentation using Sphinx, MkDocs, pdoc, and Doxygen.
- Created Python scripts for efficient file handling and text extraction from HTML files.
Pending Tasks
- Further exploration of SmartMonitor project components for enhancing documentation and monitoring capabilities.
- Development of a custom dashboard using Streamlit or Dash for monitoring message processing and RabbitMQ queue management.