next.js VS docToolchain

Using Markdoc with Next.js

Released in 2022, Markdoc is a relatively new Markdown-based authoring framework. The Markdoc project is open-source and it powers Stripe's documentation. Their website has a live edit button which makes the website a playground for you to give Markdoc a try. Documentations created with Markdoc will automatically render with your React app and using @markdoc/next.js for your Next.js app.

A couple of weeks ago, we open-sourced Markdoc, the authoring tool powering the Stripe docs. To accompany the launch, we published a blog post showing how to get started using Markdoc with Next.js, using the @markdoc/next.js plugin. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to create your own plugin, using the one I wrote for Parcel, as an example, so that you can use Markdoc with it.

Official Markdoc documentation Markdoc repository Markdoc Next.js plugin repository Markdoc playground Next.js boilerplate demo

An implementation of the docs-as-code approach, docToolchain is a collection of scripts that makes it easy to create and maintain powerful technical documentation. It is a popular open-source project that uses jBake under the hood as the SSG. docToolchain can publish to Confluence, generate PDF using an Asciidoctor plugin, and more.

[1] Gradle based, which is probably why it's fading a little bit. https://github.com/docToolchain/docToolchain

In addition to this, the focus will be laid on exporting data and integration with other tooling. This includes a convenience library for programmatic processing, static site export, and a set of recipes, e.g. for integrating with things like docToolchain.