recess vs docco

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A simple and attractive code quality tool for CSS built on top of LESS (by twitter)

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Literate Programming can be Quick and Dirty. (by jashkenas)

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recess		docco
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1	Mentions	4
2,214	Stars	3,542
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
about 8 years ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
CSS	Language	HTML
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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recess

Posts with mentions or reviews of recess. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-26.

CSS Deep
2090 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2021

twitter/recess - A simple and attractive code quality tool for CSS built on top of LESS

docco

Posts with mentions or reviews of docco. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-20.

Ask HN: Show Code with Notes Alongside
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2023

i have seen those in annotated javascript documentation. but it was the other way around. (comment on the left, and code on the right).
they all seem to use docco[0] with the option to display comment in "parallel". the author of docco used it in their library underscore[1].
[0]: https://github.com/jashkenas/docco
Docco is a quick-and-dirty documentation generator
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jul 2022
Lisp.py
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jul 2022

Side note - it's been a while since i've seen a Docco-style annotated-source-style documentation! http://ashkenas.com/docco/
Backbone.js was the first time i saw it, and I loved it! https://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html It demonstrated to me that the libraries I use are just normal code that other people write, and i myself can read it to understand a problem.
CSS Deep
2090 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2021

jashkenas/docco - Literate Programming can be Quick and Dirty.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing recess and docco you can also consider the following projects:

Compass - Compass is no longer actively maintained. Compass is a Stylesheet Authoring Environment that makes your website design simpler to implement and easier to maintain.

documentation.js - :book: documentation for modern JavaScript

SpinKit - A collection of loading indicators animated with CSS

ESDoc - ESDoc - Good Documentation for JavaScript

chardin.js - Simple overlay instructions for your apps.

sphinx - The Sphinx documentation generator

pnotify - Beautiful JavaScript notifications with Web Notifications support.

jsduck - Simple JavaScript Duckumentation generator.

Sequence - The responsive CSS animation framework for creating unique sliders, presentations, banners, and other step-based applications.

dox - JavaScript documentation generator for node using markdown and jsdoc

card - :credit_card: make your credit card form better in one line of code

JSDoc - An API documentation generator for JavaScript.