docco VS apiDoc

Compare docco vs apiDoc and see what are their differences.

docco

Literate Programming can be Quick and Dirty. (by jashkenas)

apiDoc

RESTful web API Documentation Generator. (by apidoc)
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docco apiDoc
4 5
3,541 9,720
- 0.2%
0.0 5.3
5 months ago 2 months ago
HTML JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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docco

Posts with mentions or reviews of docco. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-20.
  • Ask HN: Show Code with Notes Alongside
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2023
    i have seen those in annotated javascript documentation. but it was the other way around. (comment on the left, and code on the right).

    they all seem to use docco[0] with the option to display comment in "parallel". the author of docco used it in their library underscore[1].

    [0]: https://github.com/jashkenas/docco

  • Docco is a quick-and-dirty documentation generator
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jul 2022
  • Lisp.py
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jul 2022
    Side note - it's been a while since i've seen a Docco-style annotated-source-style documentation! http://ashkenas.com/docco/

    Backbone.js was the first time i saw it, and I loved it! https://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html It demonstrated to me that the libraries I use are just normal code that other people write, and i myself can read it to understand a problem.

  • CSS Deep
    2090 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2021
    jashkenas/docco - Literate Programming can be Quick and Dirty.

apiDoc

Posts with mentions or reviews of apiDoc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing docco and apiDoc you can also consider the following projects:

documentation.js - :book: documentation for modern JavaScript

JSDoc - An API documentation generator for JavaScript.

ESDoc - ESDoc - Good Documentation for JavaScript

swagger-php - A php swagger annotation and parsing library

sphinx - The Sphinx documentation generator

Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.

jsduck - Simple JavaScript Duckumentation generator.

dox - JavaScript documentation generator for node using markdown and jsdoc

YUIDoc - YUI Javascript Documentation Tool