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This is a Gatsby site.

The develop branch is merged to production weekly (unless we need to do a release sooner than that).

The main branch is continuously deployed to production.

• Please, feel free to make any contributions you feel will make SendGrid Documentation better.

  • Familiarize yourself with our Styleguide

• Submit all pull requests to the develop branch

• All third party contributors acknowledge that any contributions they provide will be made under the same open source license that the open source project is provided under.

  • When making contributions, be sure to place an "x" in the brackets of the PR description where it says "[ ] I acknowledge that all my contributions will be made under the project's license."

• Local Dependency Setup
  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
• Local Repository Setup
• About
• License

• Required:
  • Git
  • npm
  • Gatsby

Note: Dependencies differ for work on the old-develop branch. If you need to work on old-develop, please see the README file after checking out that branch. This is uncommon.

• Install Git
  • Git for Mac

We recommend using Homebrew to install and manage packages on a MacOS.

• Install Homebrew:

  $ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

• Install npm:

  $ brew install npm

• Set your Node.js version to 12

  $ npm install -g n
  
  $ n 12.16.1

• Install Git

  • Git for Windows

• Install npm

  • To install Node.js and npm on Windows, you can download the installer here:
    • https://nodejs.org/en/#home-downloadhead
  • Use Node.js version 12, the current Long Term Support (LTS) version.

• Install Git:

  • Git for Linux

• Install npm:

  • To install Node.js and npm on Linux, select the package and instillation appropriate for your Linux distribution. You can find help here:
    • https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/
  • Use Node.js version 12, the current Long Term Support (LTS) version.

Note: When working on Windows, you may need to run Command Prompt or PowerShell as an Administrator.

Note: When working on Mac or Linux, you may need to run some commands using "sudo."

• Clone the SendGrid Docs Repo

  • SSH:

    $ git clone git@github.com:sendgrid/docs.git

  • HTTPS:

    $ git clone https://github.com/sendgrid/docs.git

• Go to your docs directory

  $ cd docs

• Switch to develop branch to make changes

  $ git checkout develop

• Install the Gatsby CLI

  $ npm install -g gatsby-cli

• Install npm package dependencies

  $ npm ci

• Build the local site

  • With the Gatsby CLI installed globally, you can run:

    $ gatsby develop

  • Alternatively, you can run:

    $ npm run develop

  • Either of the above commands should start a hot-reloading development environment accessible at localhost:8000

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SendGrid Documentation is licensed under the MIT License (MIT)