Merge pull request #1313 from prachi237/master

Better layout configs. issue  #1300  solved

Author: beckermr

src/README.md

@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
-To build the docs here locally: make sure you have Sphinx, the Cloud Sphinx Theme, and the sphinxcontrib-fulltoc Sphinx extension installed (`conda install sphinx cloud_sptheme sphinxcontrib-fulltoc`), then run `make html` (Unix) or `./make.bat html` (Windows). This will create the output files in `_build/html`.
+The docs are built on GitHub Actions and run the ``.ci_scripts/update_docs`` script.
+
+To build the docs locally, follow the steps mentioned below:
+ 1.  Clone the repository into your local machine.
+ 2.  Go into the main folder and run the following commands.  
+ 3. ``conda env create -f ./.ci_scripts/environment.yml``
+ 4. ``conda activate conda-forge-docs``
+ 5. ``cd newsfeed && pip install --no-deps .``
+ 6. ``cd ../src``
+ 7. ``make html``
+
+Documentation update PRs should only change the files in ``src``. 
+
+Once the PR is merged to ``master``, you can find the auto-generated html files in ``docs`` directory.
 
-Documentation update PRs should only change this source; once merged to `master`, [`.ci_scripts/update_docs`](../ci_scripts/update_docs) will then automatically build it into the `docs` directory.