Faster development cycle for static websites built with Scaladoc

[bishabosha]

Scaladoc is usable as a static website generator, e.g. see https://dotty.epfl.ch, however it always builds from scratch.

To make it practical to build a large website, e.g. https://docs.scala-lang.org, we need a mode that supports a fast development cycle. Ideally the author can quickly iterate on an article, and see near-realtime updates in the browser.

We can propose two options at least:

• an incremental documentation build, so only the changes get built.
• to avoid manual browser refreshing we could integrate a hot reloading mechanism.

Whichever changes we apply, we should preserve the property that the "production" build generates the full static html before serving the page.

[ktotam1]

Hello, I am a 2nd-year master's student at EPFL. I hope it is not too late, but I would like to work on this project this fall semester. Please let me know if there are any prerequisites to work on this project, or contact me by email for more information about me at alexander.muller@epfl.ch. Cheers, Alexander