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Ayush Chaurasia 76fc16c7a1 docs: add retriever guide, address minor onboarding feedbacks & enhancement (#1326)
- Tried to address some onboarding feedbacks listed in
https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/issues/1224
- Improve visibility of pydantic integration and embedding API. (Based
on onboarding feedback - Many ways of ingesting data, defining schema
but not sure what to use in a specific use-case)
- Add a guide that takes users through testing and improving retriever
performance using built-in utilities like hybrid-search and reranking
- Add some benchmarks for the above
- Add missing cohere docs

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Co-authored-by: Weston Pace <weston.pace@gmail.com>
2024-06-08 06:25:31 +05:30
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LanceDB Documentation

LanceDB docs are deployed to https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/.

Docs is built and deployed automatically by Github Actions whenever a commit is pushed to the main branch. So it is possible for the docs to show unreleased features.

Building the docs

Setup

  1. Install LanceDB. From LanceDB repo root: pip install -e python
  2. Install dependencies. From LanceDB repo root: pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
  3. Make sure you have node and npm setup
  4. Make sure protobuf and libssl are installed

Building node module and create markdown files

See Javascript docs README

Build docs

From LanceDB repo root:

Run: PYTHONPATH=. mkdocs build -f docs/mkdocs.yml

If successful, you should see a docs/site directory that you can verify locally.

Run local server

You can run a local server to test the docs prior to deployment by navigating to the docs directory and running the following command:

cd docs
mkdocs serve

Run doctest for typescript example

cd lancedb/docs
npm i
npm run build
npm run all