dox VS apiDoc

Compare dox vs apiDoc and see what are their differences.

dox

JavaScript documentation generator for node using markdown and jsdoc (by tj)

apiDoc

RESTful web API Documentation Generator. (by apidoc)
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dox apiDoc
0 5
2,155 9,708
- 0.1%
0.0 5.3
over 1 year ago about 1 month ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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dox

Posts with mentions or reviews of dox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning dox yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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.
  • The Best API Documentation Tools for Dev Teams in 2023
    5 projects | dev.to | 28 Mar 2023
    Compared to the first three tools, apiDoc takes a different approach towards generating documentation. Rather than rely on an API definition file like OAS, apiDoc is a package that allows you to add documentation directly into your source code through annotations. While there are third-party libraries that can create OAS files based on code annotations, having this built-in makes apiDoc slightly better if you want to control documentation through code instead of having a separate tool.
  • Rest API : After CRUD
    6 projects | dev.to | 1 Mar 2022
    You can find it here : https://apidocjs.com/
  • Creating API documentation from php files?
    4 projects | /r/PHP | 3 Feb 2021
    This one works well: https://github.com/apidoc/apidoc

What are some alternatives?

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

JSDoc - An API documentation generator for JavaScript.

documentation.js - :book: documentation for modern JavaScript

swagger-php - A php swagger annotation and parsing library

YUIDoc - YUI Javascript Documentation Tool

docco - Literate Programming can be Quick and Dirty.

jsdox - simplified jsdoc 3

jsduck - Simple JavaScript Duckumentation generator.

Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.

ESDoc - ESDoc - Good Documentation for JavaScript