mdoc VS sbt-missinglink

Compare mdoc vs sbt-missinglink and see what are their differences.

mdoc

Typechecked markdown documentation for Scala (by scalameta)

sbt-missinglink

An sbt plugin for missinglink (by scalacenter)
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mdoc sbt-missinglink
4 5
385 132
1.6% 0.0%
8.4 2.6
18 days ago 7 months ago
Scala Scala
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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mdoc

Posts with mentions or reviews of mdoc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-20.
  • Optimal decision-making with examples built using scala
    4 projects | /r/scala | 20 Apr 2022
  • Friction-less scala - Tell us what is causing friction in your day-to-day life with Scala
    14 projects | /r/scala | 10 Aug 2021
    Literally what scaladoc is, it comes with sbt. Although, it's better when enhanced with mdoc so that you get the standard microsite template like these. It would be nice to have an sbt serveDocs and if everyone would host their docs for external linking, but javadoc doesn't do that either.
  • A Scala rant
    9 projects | /r/scala | 31 Mar 2021
    The good news is that scaladoc is produced by default by sbt and published by default. So you can often pull it from the same repository your library jar came from, extract it with zip, and read the docs. But that's also totally unnecessary - javadoc.io allows you to put in your module info and serves the docs for you, so if there's an older version you can access the documentation this way. Rely on the type signatures, since they can't lie, whilst comments (including scaladoc comments) can. Honestly, library authors should be using mdoc and including examples on every public method, and that type of documentation is something you can almost always contribute to a project for a quick pr kudos.
  • The future of Scaladoc
    3 projects | /r/scala | 8 Mar 2021
    I know it's not new but the "Snippet validation and results (mdoc)" features in mdoc are so cool. Really takes some of the tedium out of working with documentation since you can know that as you evolve your code the compiler will make sure you keep the docs in sync. Whole new level of Readme-Driven Development

sbt-missinglink

Posts with mentions or reviews of sbt-missinglink. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-31.
  • A Scala rant
    9 projects | /r/scala | 31 Mar 2021
    The SBT plugin is at https://github.com/scalacenter/sbt-missinglink
    9 projects | /r/scala | 31 Mar 2021
  • Preventing version conflicts with versionScheme (improving the Scala library ecosystem)
    2 projects | /r/scala | 19 Feb 2021
    In our company, we've had good experience with sbt-missinglink. It's an sbt plugin made by Scala Center that wraps the MissingLink tool. It solves the problem the linked article describes, but does so in a more fundamental way. Instead of looking at versions of packages, it goes through all the class files and analyses possible "binary" conflicts.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mdoc and sbt-missinglink you can also consider the following projects:

sbt-unidoc - sbt plugin to create a unified Scaladoc or Javadoc API document across multiple subprojects.

sbt-mima-plugin - A tool for catching binary incompatibility in Scala

sbt-revolver - An SBT plugin for dangerously fast development turnaround in Scala

coursier - Pure Scala Artifact Fetching

sbt-pack - A sbt plugin for creating distributable Scala packages.

sbt-updates - sbt plugin that can check Maven and Ivy repositories for dependency updates

soot - Soot - A Java optimization framework

sbt-native-packager - sbt Native Packager

sbt-microsites - An sbt plugin to create awesome microsites for your project

sbt-dependency-check - SBT Plugin for OWASP DependencyCheck. Monitor your dependencies and report if there are any publicly known vulnerabilities (e.g. CVEs). :rainbow:

sbt-ci-release - sbt plugin to automate Sonatype releases from GitHub Actions

xsbt-web-plugin - Servlet support for sbt