[3.12] Docs: Add make htmllive to rebuild and reload HTML files in your browser (GH-111900) (#112022)

Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Doc/Makefile

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ help:
 	@echo "  venv       to create a venv with necessary tools"
 	@echo "  html       to make standalone HTML files"
 	@echo "  htmlview   to open the index page built by the html target in your browser"
+	@echo "  htmllive   to rebuild and reload HTML files in your browser"
 	@echo "  htmlhelp   to make HTML files and a HTML help project"
 	@echo "  latex      to make LaTeX files, you can set PAPER=a4 or PAPER=letter"
 	@echo "  text       to make plain text files"
@@ -139,6 +140,11 @@ pydoc-topics: build
 htmlview: html
 	$(PYTHON) -c "import os, webbrowser; webbrowser.open('file://' + os.path.realpath('build/html/index.html'))"
 
+.PHONY: htmllive
+htmllive: SPHINXBUILD = $(VENVDIR)/bin/sphinx-autobuild
+htmllive: SPHINXOPTS = --re-ignore="/venv/"
+htmllive: html
+
 .PHONY: clean
 clean: clean-venv
 	-rm -rf build/*

Doc/requirements.txt

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ sphinx==4.5.0
 
 blurb
 
+sphinx-autobuild
 sphinxext-opengraph==0.7.5
 
 # The theme used by the documentation is stored separately, so we need