**Site index:** [https://2plot.dev/llms.txt](https://2plot.dev/llms.txt) — every page on this site, as Markdown.  
**Network index:** [https://2plot.ai/llms.txt](https://2plot.ai/llms.txt) — The 2plot network; start here to discover sibling sites.  
**Sibling sites:** 9 more in The 2plot network — listed in the site index above.  
**Sitemap:** https://2plot.dev/sitemap.xml  

> **Full documentation:** [https://boilerplate.2plot.dev](https://boilerplate.2plot.dev) — the dedicated Documentation boilerplate documentation site, with the complete API reference and deeper examples. This page is the quick-start overview.



### Get the Template

[Visit GitHub Repo](https://github.com/pip-install-python/Dash-Documentation-Boilerplate) — use it as a GitHub template or clone it directly. It is deliberately **not** a PyPI package: you fork the repo and make it yours.

```bash
git clone https://github.com/pip-install-python/Dash-Documentation-Boilerplate.git my-docs
cd my-docs
pip install -r requirements.txt
python run.py
```

### Introduction

The Dash Documentation Boilerplate is the template every `*.2plot.dev`
component documentation site is forked from — including, in an earlier form,
the site you are reading right now. Write documentation as Markdown with
frontmatter, drop live Python examples next to it, and pages register
themselves: table of contents, searchable navigation, dark/light theme with
preference persistence, and interactive code examples with real callbacks.

It is also the network's reference implementation of the AI/SEO standard: every
page ships a Markdown twin at `/{page}/llms.txt`, crawler-ready prerendered
HTML, `sitemap.xml`, `robots.txt` with per-bot-class policy, and the cross-host
network directory — all powered by
[dash-improve-my-llms](/pip/dash_improve_my_llms).

### Full Documentation

**The complete documentation lives on its own site:
[boilerplate.2plot.dev](https://boilerplate.2plot.dev)** — setup, the directive
reference, backend deep dives, the network standard, and the machine-readable
twin at
[boilerplate.2plot.dev/llms.txt](https://boilerplate.2plot.dev/llms.txt). This
page is a summary; go there for the full guide.

### Writing a Page

A docs page is one Markdown file with frontmatter and directives:

```markdown
---
name: My Component
description: What it does, in one line
endpoint: /pip/my_component
icon: mdi:code-tags
---

.. toc::

## Quick Start

.. exec::docs.my_component.simple_usage
    :code: false


<!-- Error: File not found: docs/my_component/simple_usage.py -->

```

Restart the server and the page is registered, in the navigation, in the
search index, and serving its own `llms.txt`.

### Features

*   **Markdown-driven** — pages auto-register from `docs/**/*.md`; custom directives for live examples (`.. exec::`), collapsible source (`.. sourcetabs::`), TOC and auto-generated props tables.
*   **Modern UI** — [Dash Mantine Components](https://www.dash-mantine-components.com/), responsive layout, dark/light theme persistence.
*   **Pluggable backends** — the same app runs on Flask, FastAPI or Quart; switch with a single `DASH_BACKEND` env var (async callbacks and OpenAPI docs on the ASGI backends).
*   **AI/LLM & SEO built in** — `llms.txt` on every page, prerendered crawler HTML, sitemap, bot management and the cross-host network directory.
*   **Production ready** — Docker and docker-compose, Gunicorn/Uvicorn configs, CI test suite included.