📅 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.