# Generating documentation for the server Generating the server documentation involves a few more steps. You need to follow the same preparatory steps as you did to [generate this document](./general.md). That is installing make and installing the server. Run the following: ```bash cd server/ mkdir docs cd docs/ sphinx-quickstart ``` You will be asked a few questions about how to configure Sphinx. Just press enter on all, which will use the default. You can enter the correct project name and/or author if you want, but it's not necessary, no one but you will see it anyway. Then will need to modify a few files. First add the following code snippet after the first block of comments, above the "project information" comment, in the file `./server/docs/conf.py`: ```py import os import sys basepath = os.path.dirname(__file__) filepath = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(basepath, "../")) sys.path.insert(0, filepath) ``` Then in the same file add an extension to the list of extensions, like so: ```py extensions = ["sphinx.ext.autodoc"] ``` Then just write the word app on line 13 in the file `server/docs/index.rst`. The file will then look something like: ``` .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 :caption: Contents: app ``` Then the documentation can be generated by running (still in the docs/ folder): ```bash sphinx-apidoc -o ./ ../app --no-toc -f --separate --module-first make html ``` You can then open it by typing: ```bash start ./_build/html/index.html ``` You could add all of the files we just added, except `_build/`, to Git if you want.