docsy VS Wiki.js

> cd (The root directory of the Git project. themes exists in current) > git submodule add https://github.com/google/docsy.git themes/docsy

Site URL Hugo theme introduction https://themes.gohugo.io/themes/docsy/ Sample/Demo https://example.docsy.dev/ Documentation https://www.docsy.dev/ Repository https://github.com/google/docsy

A set of Hugo documentation templates for launching open source content. Use case(s): Documentation Author: The Docsy Authors Minimum Hugo version: 0.73.0 Github stars: 1706 Last updated: 2022-05-14 License: Apache-2.0

Download Docsy Docsy demo site ​​​​Minimum Hugo version: 0.73 GitHub stars: 1.7k License: Apache-2.0

Background: I've been a technical writer for 9 years. 6 at Google, 3 as the only writer at an IoT startup.

I helped Corrily with their docs [1] in August. They were interested in readme.io. I wasn't keen on it because I had worked with Retool a few years back and had found readme.io lacking. But I was pleasantly surprised by how much readme.io has progressed since then! If you're looking for a documentation product that is very easy to update and mostly just works, then it's worth checking out.

On https://web.dev I was introduced to Eleventy. Eleventy [2] is now my go to. The documentation for Elecenty itself is very strangely organized and needs a refactor. But I have found that there is always a way to accomplish whatever I need, and usually elegantly.

Another project worth checking out is Docsy [3]. This is a Jekyll template specifically created for technical documentation.

Back at the IoT startup I had to set up the whole documentation system / tooling myself. I used Sphinx and deployed to Heroku. Haven't used Sphinx since then but I remember being satisfied with it back then.

[1] https://docs.corrily.com

[2] https://11ty.dev

[3] https://docsy.dev

I haven't used either of these, but I've heard good things about both https://github.com/google/docsy and https://thegooddocsproject.dev/. If you choose to use either of these, I'd love to hear about it. I have coworkers who contribute to both of them.

Wiki.js is a self hosted, open source Wiki that has a lot of awesome functionality. Unfortunately it's lacking some small, but important UI features, like a light box, to enlarge downsized images to it's full size. And unless you want to add a link to each image, to open it in a new tab, you would probably go for a modal view here.

Can't think of anything that meets all the criteria, there's always some compromise, which might just be the way it is. For example I could 'self-host' otterwiki or wiki.js on a VPS for a pretty small monthly fee, which I could also use for other stuff that doesn't make sense for a home lab, but then I also need to deal with security since it's hosted on the internet. Or I could self-host and just accept that there's risk of it not being available when my wife needs it or if I die suddenly.

WikiJS as Homepage (a bit unusual, I know...)

I love PlantUML. I was always fond of it in my early days as a software engineer and still use it today, along with all the various ways to draw diagrams out there, whether it's through a web tool like draw.io or Miro or through markup like PlantUML and Mermaid.

Some stuff I'd like to share with the rest:

- PlantUML's default style has improved since the days of red/brown borders, pale yellow boxes, drop shadows and such but I've attempted fixing it before through a preset style [I've made before here](https://gist.github.com/jerieljan/4c82515ff5f2b2e4dd5122d354...). It's obsolete nowadays, since I'm sure someone has made a style generator somewhere, and last I checked, PlantUML allows a monochrome style out of the box.

- [Eraser](https://app.eraser.io) is promising, considering that it's trying to blend both diagram-as-code markup along with the usual visual diagram editor. I'm still seeing if it's worth picking up since Miro's hard to beat.

- On an unrelated note, [WikiJS](https://js.wiki/) is a self-hosted wiki that happens to support draw.io, PlantUML and MermaidJS diagrams out of the box. Quite handy to have for your own docs.

- I use Miro nowadays since it's significantly quicker to draw things freeform and to collaborate live with folks on a whiteboard at the cost of having your diagrams in markup, but it's easy to miss the integration that [you can actually import PlantUML](https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/7004940386578) and Mermaid diagrams in a Miro board too. You can also do edits too, but it's on its own PlantUML section, of course.

I've asked on LinkedIn which PostgreSQL application you use so that I can check that it works on Yugabyte. Please, continue to answer. To start let's try with Wiki.js, open source wiki software storing into a PostgreSQL database.

I like https://js.wiki/