Documentation Writing

FastStream Documentation Writing

Layout

• Pages: docs/docs/en/... (markdown; mkdocs-material with the i18n plugin — English is the source language).
• Runnable code snippets: docs/docs_src/<topic>/... (fully excluded from ruff — see exclude in ruff.toml).
• Navigation: docs/docs/SUMMARY.md (literate-nav) — new pages need an entry there.
• API reference pages are generated by docs/create_api_docs.py — never hand-edit them.

Code snippets

Never inline non-trivial code in markdown. Put a runnable Python file in docs/docs_src/ and embed it with mdx_include:

{!> docs_src/getting_started/publishing/kafka/broker.py !}

New docs_src snippets should get a test under tests/docs/<topic>/test_<feature>.py — one test file covers all broker variants via require marks (e.g. @require_aiokafka), not one file per broker subdir (see the testing-patterns skill). Some examples are intentionally untested; the exemptions are listed in the coverage omit list in pyproject.toml.

A snippet test imports the runnable objects from the module and exercises them in-memory — never a bare import module (it tests nothing and trips ruff F401):

import pytest

from faststream.nats import TestApp, TestNatsBroker


@pytest.mark.nats()
@pytest.mark.asyncio()
async def test_basic() -> None:
    from docs.docs_src.nats.js.pull_sub import app, broker, handle

    async with TestNatsBroker(broker), TestApp(app):
        await broker.publish("Hi!", "test")
        handle.mock.assert_called_once_with("Hi!")

The test imports via the docs.docs_src.… package path, while the markdown embeds it via the docs_src/… path (mdx_include base_path is docs/). Either way the snippet MUST live under docs/docs_src/, not repo-root docs_src/ — otherwise the embed silently resolves to nothing and the import fails.

Markdown conventions

• External links: [text](https://...){.external-link target="_blank"}; internal links: {.internal-link}.

• Multi-broker pages use pymdownx tabs with one snippet per broker:

  === "AIOKafka"
      ...embedded kafka snippet...
  
  === "Confluent"
      ...embedded confluent snippet...
  
  === "RabbitMQ"
      ...embedded rabbit snippet...
  

• Admonitions (!!! note, !!! tip, !!! warning) are available and encouraged for caveats.

Example-code rules (FastStream usage)

All example code must follow idiomatic FastStream usage:

• Create the broker outside the app and pass it positionally: app = FastStream(broker). Don't use app.broker.
• Prefer the faststream.Logger annotation in broker handlers over print() (some HTTP-integration examples use print() for brevity).
• Register subscribers/publishers only via @broker.subscriber(...) / @broker.publisher(...) (or the router equivalents).
• Fully annotate handler parameters; handlers return None unless their return value is published.
• Don't add decorator options the example doesn't need.
• Use Annotated[str, Path()] for subject path params and Annotated[..., Context()] for context access (built-ins: broker, context, logger, message).
• Import only from public packages — never faststream._internal.

Build & serve

• just docs-serve — live dev server on port 8000.
• just docs-build — build the static site.
• just docs-build-api — regenerate the API reference.

Related skills

• testing-patterns — how to mark and run the snippet tests in tests/docs/.
• code-architecture — source conventions example code must follow (public API only, no _internal imports).
• dev-workflow — environment setup for the docs toolchain.