📅 2025-01-26 — Session: Documentation and HTML Processing with Python
🕒 21:35–22:25
🏷️ Labels: Documentation, Python, HTML, Sphinx, Mkdocs, Beautifulsoup
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to enhance and automate the generation and processing of project documentation using various tools like Sphinx, MkDocs, and pdoc, and to develop scripts for handling HTML files in Python.
Key Activities
- Documentation Generation: Instructions were followed to verify and rebuild project documentation using Sphinx and MkDocs, including setting up search functionalities.
- Tool Overview: Explored documentation tools such as pdoc and Doxygen, focusing on their command-line usage and output verification.
- HTML File Processing: Developed Python scripts to combine HTML text files, remove unwanted links, and extract plain text using BeautifulSoup, enhancing readability and preparing content for documentation.
- SmartMonitor Project: Reviewed the components of the SmartMonitor project, identifying key areas for further exploration.
- Dashboard Proposal: Conceptualized a lightweight UI using Streamlit or Dash for monitoring message processing and RabbitMQ queue management.
Achievements
- Successfully updated and verified documentation using Sphinx, MkDocs, and pdoc.
- Created effective Python scripts for HTML file processing, improving documentation quality and organization.
- Established a clear overview of the SmartMonitor project’s components and potential dashboard solutions.
Pending Tasks
- Implement the proposed dashboard for monitoring message processing and RabbitMQ queues.
- Further explore the integration of documentation tools for seamless workflow.