MkDocs VS VuePress

Compare MkDocs vs VuePress and see what are their differences.

MkDocs

Project documentation with Markdown. (by mkdocs)

VuePress

đź“ť Minimalistic Vue-powered static site generator (by vuejs)
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MkDocs VuePress
111 44
18,123 22,284
1.8% 0.5%
9.0 4.1
4 days ago 8 days ago
Python JavaScript
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License MIT License
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.

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 2024-03-25.

VuePress

Posts with mentions or reviews of VuePress. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.
  • Free project idea - documentation framework!
    3 projects | /r/solidjs | 27 Mar 2023
    VuePress - when I searched if it's supporting what I want (conditional rendering), the first result is a bug issue opened 4 years ago, so it doesn't seem to be a good option.
  • Using links in markdown to navigate files through directories.
    2 projects | /r/iawriter | 29 Jan 2023
    I'm new to IA Writer, and I'm wanting to use it to draft posts for my Vuepress site.
  • Create a Static Site using VitePress for Beautiful Help Documentation
    2 projects | dev.to | 6 Dec 2022
    VitePress is listed in the documents as VuePress' little brother, and it is built on top of Vite. For those that don't know Vite is a build tool that aims to provide a faster and leaner development experience for modern web projects so it might sense to pair it with a static site generator such as VitePress. One of the original problems with VuePress was that it was a Webpack app and it took a lot of time to spin up a dev server for just a simple doc. VitePress solves these problems with nearly instant server start, an on-demand compilation that only compiles the page being served, and lightning-fast HMR. Let's get started!
  • 10+ Must Use Static Site Generator 2022
    9 projects | dev.to | 6 Dec 2022
    VuePress
  • Do you use Vue for smaller static sites?
    11 projects | /r/vuejs | 28 Nov 2022
    Definitely check out Vuepress for smaller static sites. We use it to publish our tutorials
    11 projects | /r/vuejs | 28 Nov 2022
  • Getting Tailwind to Work with Elm Book
    12 projects | dev.to | 28 Nov 2022
    Trying to help build a design system at work in my spare time; no clue if it will go anywhere but it’s fun regardless. I asked the Elm Slack group what the equivalent of React Storybook. Specifically, I wanted a way to build a documentation website like Vuepress with the ability to host native Elm code to showcase components. They pointed me to Elm Book. While Elm Book has built-in theming capabilities, I needed CSS control over my components. While they support elm-css, I wanted the ability to use TailwindCSS. The Elm libraries haven’t kept up with Tailwind’s changes, which is fine; writing raw Tailwind CSS on Elm HTML functions is easy and co-located with the component you’re styling.
  • How to Collect Documentation Statistics in Vuepress
    2 projects | dev.to | 17 Nov 2022
    Vuepress is a minimalistic static site generator with a Vue-powered theming system and a default theme that has been optimized for writing technical documentation.
  • Vue 3 comp api autogenerated component docs
    3 projects | /r/vuejs | 15 Nov 2022
    You can use auto-import or Vue-Press. You can reference my-project using the auto-import plugin
  • Easy Way to Integrate Algolia to VuePress Application
    2 projects | dev.to | 30 Oct 2022
    This parameter is default and there is a issue.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MkDocs and VuePress you can also consider the following projects:

sphinx - The Sphinx documentation generator

pdoc - API Documentation for Python Projects

DocFX - Static site generator for .NET API documentation.

Hugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.

BookStack - A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel

Read the Docs - The source code that powers readthedocs.org

mdBook - Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust

Wiki.js - Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

mkdocs-material - Documentation that simply works

Pycco - Literate-style documentation generator.