retype VS mdBook

Outside of Swift, I use RetypeApp and they have a lot of inbuilt functionality. You can then generate your output directory on build, and use those HTML files as is.

You can build pretty beautiful docs with: - https://retype.com - https://docusaurus.io - https://www.intercom.com/articles

Retype is the nicest one I’ve come across in my search! Has a built in table of contents, pretty easy to create (entirely using markdown) and great support for emojis, math, containers, multi tab info panels, and proper dropdown panels.

Are you aiming at creating something like this? With a bar on the left with folders?

I recently set up something with https://retype.com/ and it's quite good.

While gitbook does wrap the branching/merging process in a UI that is digestible by non-developers, Retype is far more powerful because you actually use GitHub (or GitLab). You have the full power of GitHub, including branching, pull-requests, issues, reviews, automation, authentication, and everything else.

For example, here's the repo for the retype.com website, see https://github.com/retypeapp/retype

The entire website is built from simple Markdown text files.

I'm responsible for a number of Java products. I try to provide high-quality Javadoc for all public library interfaces, library user's guides where appropriate, and development guides for applications. The latter two take the form of MDBook documents (https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/), with the document source living in the GitHub repo so that it's tied to the particular software release in a natural way.

My org has used mdBook: https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/ (That link is itself a rendered mdBook, so that'll give you an idea of the feature set.)

(While it's definitely a Rust "thing", if you just have a set of .md files, all you need is a "SUMMARY.md" (which contains the ToC) and a small config file; i.e., you don't have to have any Rust code to use it, and it works fine without. We document a large, mostly non-Rust codebase with it.)

If you want the lowest friction, open source, easily extensible Markdown to Web, Kindle, PDF, etc. tool, highly recommend mdBook: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook it’s written in Rust, but you don’t have to know any Rust to use it. And then wing is all CSS; for which there are many good (free) themes.

Interesting enough there seems to be an open PR for that: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/pull/1918