Automatically deploy your documentation of your project without any CI pipelines. This is achieved by using github actions along with github pages.

Doxygen with auto deployment has been setup in this repository. The documentation for this repository is available at https://satu0king.github.io/Github-Documentation-With-Doxygen/

Skip this if you already have doxygen configured

• Install doxygen
  • macOS - brew install doxygen
  • Ubuntu - sudo apt-get install -y doxygen
• Create doxygen config file (Doxyfile). Run doxygen -g
• Configure Doxyfile
  • Set RECURSIVE to YES
  • Set EXCLUDE and EXCLUDE_PATTERNS to exclude directories you don't want documented. Typically library code and plugins come here.
  • Set PROJECT_NAME to the name of your project
• Optionally add html and latex to .gitignore file
• Document your code according to Doxygen guidlines
  • Check src/main.c for C style documentation. Output can be seen here.
  • Check src/main.cpp for C++ style documentation. Output can be seen here
  • Check src/main.py for Python style documentation. Output can be seen here
• Optionally run doxygen to generate documentation to see output documentation locally
  • By default web documentation and pdf documentation files are generated in html and latex directories respectively.
  • View web documentation at html/index.html
  • Compile pdf documentation by running make in latex directory
  • Class list can be seen here

• Copy the action file main.yml to .github/workflows/main.yml
• Commit and Push to github
• Github action should automatically start running
• Confirm that github is set to deploy gh-pages branch in settings page

• Ensure that publish_dir in main.yml is set correctly