LlamaIndex Documentation

A guide for docs contributors

The docs directory contains the sphinx source text for LlamaIndex docs, visit https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/ to read the full documentation.

This guide is made for anyone who's interested in running LlamaIndex documentation locally, making changes to it and make contributions. LlamaIndex is made by the thriving community behind it, and you're always welcome to make contributions to the project and the documentation.

Build Docs

If you haven't already, clone the LlamaIndex Github repo to a local directory:

git clone https://github.com/jerryjliu/llama_index.git && cd llama_index

Install all dependencies required for building docs (mainly sphinx and its extension):

pip install -r docs/requirements.txt

Build the sphinx docs:

cd docs
make html

The docs HTML files are now generated under docs/_build/html directory, you can preview it locally with the following command:

python -m http.server 8000 -d _build/html

And open your browser at http://0.0.0.0:8000/ to view the generated docs.

Watch Docs

We recommend using sphinx-autobuild during development, which provides a live-reloading server, that rebuilds the documentation and refreshes any open pages automatically when changes are saved. This enables a much shorter feedback loop which can help boost productivity when writing documentation.

Simply run the following command from LlamaIndex project's root directory:

make watch-docs