Add make [-C docs] htmllive to rebuild and reload HTML files (#8913)

Co-authored-by: Andrew Murray <3112309+radarhere@users.noreply.github.com>

Makefile

@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ doc html:
 htmlview:
 	$(MAKE) -C docs htmlview
 
+.PHONY: htmllive
+htmllive:
+	$(MAKE) -C docs htmllive
+
 .PHONY: doccheck
 doccheck:
 	$(MAKE) doc
@@ -43,6 +47,7 @@ help:
 	@echo "  docserve           run an HTTP server on the docs directory"
 	@echo "  html               make HTML docs"
 	@echo "  htmlview           open the index page built by the html target in your browser"
+	@echo "  htmllive           rebuild and reload HTML files in your browser"
 	@echo "  install            make and install"
 	@echo "  install-coverage   make and install with C coverage"
 	@echo "  lint               run the lint checks"

docs/Guardfile

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-from livereload.compiler import shell
-from livereload.task import Task
-
-Task.add("*.rst", shell("make html"))
-Task.add("*/*.rst", shell("make html"))
-Task.add("Makefile", shell("make html"))
-Task.add("conf.py", shell("make html"))

docs/Makefile

@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ help:
 	@echo "Please use \`make <target>' where <target> is one of"
 	@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 "  serve      to start a local server for viewing docs"
-	@echo "  livehtml   to start a local server for viewing docs and auto-reload on change"
 	@echo "  dirhtml    to make HTML files named index.html in directories"
 	@echo "  singlehtml to make a single large HTML file"
 	@echo "  pickle     to make pickle files"
@@ -201,9 +201,10 @@ doctest:
 htmlview: html
 	$(PYTHON) -c "import os, webbrowser; webbrowser.open('file://' + os.path.realpath('$(BUILDDIR)/html/index.html'))"
 
-.PHONY: livehtml
-livehtml: html
-	livereload $(BUILDDIR)/html -p 33233
+.PHONY: htmllive
+htmllive: SPHINXBUILD = $(PYTHON) -m sphinx_autobuild
+htmllive: SPHINXOPTS = --open-browser --delay 0
+htmllive: html
 
 .PHONY: serve
 serve:

pyproject.toml

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ optional-dependencies.docs = [
   "furo",
   "olefile",
   "sphinx>=8.2",
+  "sphinx-autobuild",
   "sphinx-copybutton",
   "sphinx-inline-tabs",
   "sphinxext-opengraph",