Cocos Documentation User Manual

Contributing to these docs

Contributions to the Cocos documentation are always welcome. To edit a document, please fork the Cocos docs repository.

Notes:

• Fork our docs repo
• The en/ directory contains English contributions. The zh/ directory contains 中文 contributions.
• code blocks must be wrapped in a markdown codeblock. For Markdown help, please see GitHub Flavored Markdown
• Changes must be tested using gitbook build and gitbook serve, and must be tested in multiple web browsers. For more information, see the Requirements section below.
• Submit completed changes via a pull request so they can be reviewed and merged.

Requirements

This documentation site is powered by GitBook. You need Node.js and npm to be able to build it.

To install gitbook:

npm install gitbook-cli -g

To install gitbook plugins:

gitbook install

Preview and Build

To preview the documentation site, run the following command in the cocos2d-x-docs directory:

gitbook serve

This command will build and launch a web server to host the site. It will also enable the livereload plugin, which ensures that changes to the markdown source files automatically trigger a rebuild of the documentation site.

To build the html markdown only, use this command:

gitbook build