MkDocs
Project documentation with Markdown. (by mkdocs)
sphinx
The Sphinx documentation generator (by sphinx-doc)
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MkDocs | sphinx | |
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114 | 31 | |
18,219 | 6,012 | |
1.4% | 1.0% | |
9.0 | 9.8 | |
3 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Python | Python | |
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
MkDocs
Posts with mentions or reviews of MkDocs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.
- I am stepping down from MkDocs
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Alternatives to Docusaurus for product documentation
MkDocs is BSD-2-Clause licensed and has a vibrant community; GitHub Discussion is used for questions and high-level discussion, while the Gitter/Matrix chat room is used to discuss less complex topics. These communities provide essential resources and support.
- Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server
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Enhance Your Project Quality with These Top Python Libraries
MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that’s geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file.
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Top 5 Open-Source Documentation Development Platforms of 2024
MkDocs is a popular static site generator designed explicitly for building project documentation. Its minimalist approach, flexibility, and ease of use have made it a favorite among developers and ideal for non-technical users.
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5 Best Static Site Generators in Python
MkDocs is a popular static site generator specifically designed for project documentation. It is built on Python's Markdown processing engine and comes with a clean and responsive default theme. MkDocs is easy to configure, and its simplicity makes it an excellent choice for quickly creating documentation for your projects.
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Creating a knowledge base website for work, do I need a database or can it be only front end designed?
Take a look at https://www.mkdocs.org
- MdBook – Create book from Markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
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Examples with Github Pages?
I was thinking about using MkDocs, its usually used for documentation but I don't see why it couldn't be used for a normal wiki aswell. Since It's markdown you can just customize it like if it were a wiki, and a wiki doesn't really need backend stuff so I don't see a problem with it
sphinx
Posts with mentions or reviews of sphinx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-24.
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5 Best Static Site Generators in Python
Sphinx is primarily known as a documentation generator, but it can also be used to create static websites. It excels in generating technical documentation, and its support for multiple output formats, including HTML and PDF, makes it a versatile tool. Sphinx uses reStructuredText for content creation and is highly extensible through plugins.
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User Guides in Code Documentation: Empowering Users with Usage Instructions
Sphinx a documentation generator or a tool that translates a set of plain text source files into various output formats, automatically producing cross-references, indices, etc. That is, if you have a directory containing a bunch of reStructuredText or Markdown documents, Sphinx can generate a series of HTML files, a PDF file (via LaTeX), man pages and much more.
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MdBook – Create book from Markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
Notable mentions to [Sphinx](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/). It's workflow is more tuned to the "book" format rather than the blog, forum or thread format.
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best packages for documenting the flow of logic?
Currently trying out Sphinx (https://www.sphinx-doc.org) and the trying to get the autodocgen feature to see what that can do.
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Generate PDF from file (docstrings)
So, I've documented my code and now I need a .PDF with this documentation. Is there any easy way to do it? Once I used Sphinx but it generated a not so easy .TeX.
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Introducing AutoPyTabs: Automatically generate code examples for different Python versions in MkDocs or Sphinx based documentations
AutoPyTabs allows you to write code examples in your documentation targeting a single version of Python and then generates examples targeting higher Python versions on the fly, presenting them in tabs, using popular tabs extensions. This all comes packaged as a markdown extension, MkDocs plugin and a Sphinx, so it can easily be integrated with your documentation workflow.
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dictf - An extended Python dict implementation that supports multiple key selection with a pretty syntax.
Honestly, I think it's just an issue of documentation. For example, if there was an easier way to document @overload functions, that would help (cf. https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/7787)
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Pipeline documentation
We use sphynx for our pipeline documentation for all technical details Classes , packages and functions docstrings using reStructuredText (reST) format
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Minimum Viable Hugo – No CSS, no JavaScript, 1 static HTML page to start you off
I like Sphinx [0] with the MyST Markdown syntax [1]. There is a related project, Myst NB [2], which enables including Jupyter notebooks in your site. There is also a plugin for blogging [3].
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Marketing for Developers
Sphinx is the go-to tool for documentation. It took me a while to understand how to use Sphinx, but I now have a decent workflow with MyST which allows me to write all the docs in markdown. My sphinx-markdown-docs repo shows an example of what I do.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing MkDocs and sphinx you can also consider the following projects:
pdoc - API Documentation for Python Projects
DocFX - Static site generator for .NET API documentation.
Pycco - Literate-style documentation generator.
Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
fastapi - FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
mkdocs-material - Documentation that simply works
BookStack - A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel
Python Cheatsheet - All-inclusive Python cheatsheet
Read the Docs - The source code that powers readthedocs.org
mkdocstrings - :blue_book: Automatic documentation from sources, for MkDocs.