docs.earthscope.org

Source for docs.earthscope.org, EarthScope's technical documentation hub. The site is built using MyST and hosts the top-level landing pages and links out to the docs for individual tools (Services, Data, GeoLab), which live in their own repositories.

Repo layout

• intro.md, user_account.md, citation.md — page content for this site.
• myst.yml — project config (title, table of contents).
• es_config/earthscope.yml — shared MyST config (theme, nav bar, logos) extended by this and other EarthScope docs repos.
• es_config/search-widget.mjs — custom search button/modal backed by a Google Programmable Search Engine.
• scripts/build-docs.sh — central build script, also fetched and run directly by the other EarthScope docs repos' Netlify builds.
• scripts/fix-sitemap.mjs — post-build fixup for sitemap.xml/robots.txt (myst-theme's static export hardcodes localhost as the origin) and merges in URLs from the other projects listed in netlify.toml.
• netlify.toml — Netlify build settings and the redirects that stitch the other EarthScope docs sites under docs.earthscope.org/<path>.
• plugins/fanout/ — local Netlify build plugin that rebuilds the other EarthScope docs sites when the files they share with this repo change.

Local testing

Prerequisites: Node.js (v24 to match Netlify, see netlify.toml).

Install mystmd (pinned version comes from scripts/build-docs.sh):

npm install -g mystmd@~1.10.1

Start a live-reloading local server:

myst start

This serves the site at http://localhost:3000 and rebuilds pages as you edit them.

To reproduce the actual production build (static HTML export, plus the sitemap/robots.txt fixups):

myst build --html
node scripts/fix-sitemap.mjs

Output goes to _build/html. Note that fix-sitemap.mjs fetches the sitemap/robots.txt of every other project referenced in netlify.toml, so it requires network access and those sites to be reachable.

Local dev on the search widget

es_config/earthscope.yml points navbar_end at the raw GitHub URL for es_config/navbar_end_external.md on main, so local edits to that file (or to search-widget.mjs, which it references) won't show up in myst start until pushed. To test search-widget changes locally, comment out that line in es_config/earthscope.yml and uncomment the one below it that points at the local es_config/navbar_end.md instead.

Deployment

Netlify builds this repo (and the other EarthScope docs repos) by running scripts/build-docs.sh, which installs the pinned mystmd version, runs myst build --html, and — for the root project only — runs scripts/fix-sitemap.mjs. See netlify.toml for build settings and redirects.

Propagating shared config to the other docs sites

The other repos pull es_config/ over raw.githubusercontent.com and curl scripts/build-docs.sh during their own builds, so changing either one here leaves them stale until they rebuild. The plugins/fanout build plugin closes that gap: after a successful production deploy, if either path changed since the last build, it POSTs to each subsite's Netlify build hook.

Hook URLs are read from build-scoped environment variables, one per subsite, named SUBSITE_HOOK_<NAME> (for example SUBSITE_HOOK_GEOLAB). Set them under Project configuration → Environment variables, and mark them secret. With none set, the plugin does nothing. Setting DRY_RUN to any non-empty value logs which subsites would be triggered without firing the hooks.