How to Deploy Automatically Sphinx Documentation using GitHub Pages and Actions?
In software development, documentation is a critical component that ensures your code is understandable and maintainable. GitHub, a platform well-known for its role in version control and collaboration, offers tools like GitHub Pages and GitHub Actions to make documentation deployment seamless. Coupled with Sphinx, a powerful documentation generator, you can easily create and host comprehensive project documentation.
In this article, I will share with you the process of deploying Sphinx-generated documentation to GitHub Pages to get at the end a live, auto-updating documentation site for your project.
What is Sphinx?
“Sphinx” is a documentation generator that converts reStructuredText (reST) files into various output formats, such as HTML, LaTeX, and PDF. Created for the Python documentation, Sphinx supports a wide range of projects due to its extensibility and robust feature set. It can automatically generate API documentation, cross-references, indices, and much more.
