sanic/docs/contributing.md

# How to contribute to Sanic

Thank you for your interest!

## Running tests
* `python -m pip install pytest`
* `python -m pytest tests`

## Documentation

Sanic's documentation is built using [sphinx](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/1.5.1/). Guides are written in Markdown and can be found in the `docs` folder, while the module reference is automatically generated using `sphinx-apidoc`.

To generate the documentation from scratch:

```bash
rm -f docs/_api/*
sphinx-apidoc -o docs/_api/ sanic
sphinx-build -b html docs docs/_build
```

The HTML documentation will be created in the `docs/_build` folder.

## Warning
One of the main goals of Sanic is speed.  Code that lowers the performance of Sanic without significant gains in usability, security, or features may not be merged.