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      <h1>Beautiful Documentation for Build Rules</h1>
      <p class="lead">
        Stardoc is an easy-to-use documentation generator for Bazel build rules
        written in Starlark.
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      <p class="lead">
        (Stardoc is a recent replacement of the documentation generator tool named "Skydoc")
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      <a href="/docs/getting_started_stardoc.html" class="mdl-button mdl-js-button
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      <a href="/docs/getting_started.html" class="mdl-button mdl-js-button
          mdl-button--raised mdl-js-ripple-effect">Take me to Skydoc documentation instead</a>
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      <h1>Python docstrings</h1>
      <p>
        Document your Starlark rules
        <a href="docs/writing_stardoc.html">alongside their definition</a>.
      </p>
{% highlight python %}
my_rule = rule(
    implementation = _my_rule_impl,
    doc = """
Example rule documentation.

Example:
  Here is an example of how to use this rule.
""",
    attrs = {
        "srcs" : attr.label_list(
            doc = "Source files used to build this target.",
        ),
        "deps" : attr.label_list(
            doc = "Dependencies for this target.",
        ),
    }
)
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      <h1>Convenient Build Rules</h1>
      <p>
        Skydoc's own convenient Bazel <a href="docs/generating_stardoc.html">build
        rules</a> making it to integrate Skydoc into your build or release
        pipeline.
      </p>
{% highlight python %}
load("@io_bazel_skydoc//stardoc:stardoc.bzl",
     "stardoc")

stardoc(
    name = "checkstyle-docs",
    input = "checkstyle.bzl",
    out = "checkstyle_doc.md",
)
{% endhighlight %}
<pre class="term">$ <span class="info">bazel</span> build :checkstyle-docs</pre>
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      <h1>Beautiful Documentation</h1>
      <p>
        Generate <a href="docs/skylark.html">documentation</a> in Markdown.
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