27.10. How to test locally

You can test locally your changes in the Sphinx documentation by compiling your code with the following command:

scons --sphinx html

The output will be produced in $BELLE2_LOCAL_DIR/build/html and you can navigate it with your favorite browser to check if the output is what you expect.

Alternatively you can also build the sphinx documentation without building any code with

b2code-sphinx-build

which will be slightly faster. If you’re only interested in sphinx warnings, use

b2code-sphinx-warnings

If you are working on a remote server with port 8XXX forwarded to your local machine (as when running a Jupyter notebook), you can also start a tiny web server on the remote machine and access it from your local machine to view the rendered documentation:

# log in to remote with port forwarding
# (8XXX is a unique number of your choice)
ssh login.cc.kek.jp -L 8XXX:localhost:8XXX
# set up basf2
cd ${BELLE2_LOCAL_DIR}/build/html
python3 -m http.server 8XXX

Now navigate to http://0.0.0.0:8XXX on your local machine to see the rendered web pages.