datastation-documentation VS nextra

Hey folks! I quit my job at Oracle almost a year ago now to build DataStation. It's an app I've wanted as an engineering manager for years now.

DataStation helps you query a variety of data sources (conventional SQL like PostgreSQL and MySQL, non-SQL like Prometheus or Elasticsearch), files and HTTP APIs. It is not a SQL layer on top of these various APIs like FDW in Postgres or Apache Calcite. For Prometheus you query with PromQL. For Elasticsearch you query with Lucene. And for SQL databases you query with their SQL dialect.

DataStation is made of panels (other apps might call them cells) that each produce a result. Panels can refer to other panels. These allow you to build workflows that cross the boundary of a particular datasource. For example you might have some data in a CSV a product manager gave you and the bulk of your data is in PostgreSQL. DataStation helps you pull together these data sets and script them.

DataStation is mainly a desktop app today where the end result is that you export graph SVGS or HTML tables or markdown tables or just a CSV file. All this data stays on your laptop so it's as easy to use in a corporate environment as any existing SQL IDE or Jupyter Notebook.

In the last year it's reached 1.5k stars on Github, over 1000 unique users and currently on-average about 40 fairly active users per month (defined as having opened the app more than a few times).

DataStation is primarily an Electron app but the code that evaluates panels is written in Go.

You can find a ton of tutorials on how to interact with supported databases on the DataStation website: https://datastation.multiprocess.io/docs/.

Looking forward to your feedback!

There are primarily a bunch of tutorials for getting started [0] (these are up to date) and some old videos (not up to date) [1].

[0] https://datastation.multiprocess.io/docs/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGOQFKonPUVo5LgxQDW26yg/vid...

A markdown generator embeds markdown from a Github repo into the marketing site. This way the marketing site is kept private while anyone can easily contribute to docs.

Docs are kept in separate folders for each release.

https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation-documentation

co-author here

we put in a lot of effort into our docs and we'd greatly appreciate any criticism or feedback! Langfuse is powerful but the docs should help beginners to quickly get started and then incrementally use more features.

docs are OSS, repo: https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse-docs

built using: https://github.com/shuding/nextra

However, this may just be due to the lack of proper documentation from the Nextra side of things (shoutout to Nextra though, regardless).

Nextra - Nextra is another option for creating documentation sites. While it might not be as well-known as Docusaurus, Nextra offers a modern and minimalist approach to building documentation. It is designed to be lightweight and user-friendly, making it a good choice for those who prefer a simple and clean documentation style. You can explore more about Nextra on their official website.

I have looked at https://nextra.site/ but that doesn't work with the app router yet. So I'm wondering if there's another alternative.

You could also have a look at Nextra. You can use mdx components to build your blog (including support for server-side fetching). I'm currently using their documentation template, but it seems they also have a blog template.

We write everything in Markdown, as it's the closest you'll get to a 'universal' format. Then, we use a static site generator to turn the docs into a website. Current projects are using Nextra for this. If you ever need to change site generators, you still have all the markdown docs and image files, so it's pretty easy to change.

https://nextra.site/ is nice

Today I found this tool for Next.js called Nextra. You can effortlessly create a blog post website or a documentation website. All you need is markdown. Simply export your markdown from Notion and utilize it with Nextra to enjoy all the cool features, including full-text search, syntax highlighting, dark/light mode, and even image support. Everything is generated at build time, making it a static website which is Blazingly fast. https://nextra.site/