ts-doc-gen-md VS docs.rs

Compare ts-doc-gen-md vs docs.rs and see what are their differences.

ts-doc-gen-md

Generates documentation in github flavored markdown for typescript libraries. (by lillallol)

docs.rs

crates.io documentation generator (by rust-lang)
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ts-doc-gen-md docs.rs
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0.0 9.5
over 3 years ago 3 days ago
TypeScript Rust
MIT License MIT License
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ts-doc-gen-md

Posts with mentions or reviews of ts-doc-gen-md. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-08.
  • I created a documentation generator for typescript projects
    3 projects | /r/typescript | 8 Oct 2021
    By the way, you people can take a look also in my documentation generation library : ts-doc-gen-md, that I created, something like 10 months ago, and see if it fits your needs. It creates documentation in github flavored markdown. I am not planning to make it create documentation in html.

docs.rs

Posts with mentions or reviews of docs.rs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-11.
  • Obvious Things C Should Do
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2025
    > So it’s built into GitLab and GitHub? BitBucket?

    No. It's built into the toolchain which every Rust developer has installed.

    > How easy is it to use on windows (i.e. is it is easy as opening a .h in notepad and reading it)?

    A easy as on Linux or macOS from my experience.

    > How easy is it to use from a command line environment with vim or emacs bindings?

    Not sure I understand the question; use how exactly? You either have a binding which runs `cargo doc` and opens the docs for you, or you use an LSP server and a plugin for your editor in which case the docs are integrated into your editor.

    > I shouldn’t have to install a toolchain (let alone rely on a web browser) to read API documentation.

    If you want you can just read the source code, just as you do for any other language, because the docs are right there in the sources.

    For publicly available libraries you can also type in `https://docs.rs/$name_of_library` in your web browser to open the docs. Any library available through crates.io (so 99.9% of what people use) have docs available there, so even if you don't have the toolchain installed/are on your phone you can still browse through the docs.

    I know what you're going to say - what if you don't have the toolchain installed and the library is not public? Or, worse, you're using a 30 year old machine that doesn't have a web browser available?! Well, sure, tough luck, then you need to do it the old school way and browse the sources.

    You can always find a corner case of "what if...?", but I find that totally unconvincing. Making the 99.9% case harder (when you have a web browser and a toolchain installed, etc.) to make the 0.1% case (when you don't) easier is a bad tradeoff.

  • Ask HN: What's the best documentation site you've come across?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Sep 2024
    As a general rule (for established libraries at least), the docs for rust crates stored on https://docs.rs are pretty good. This comes from having docs being built-in to the tooling, so it's really easy to deliver docs in a consistent format.
  • Enlightenmentware
    22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 May 2024
    I felt that way about node and yet node lead to an explosion of poorly written and designed packages and constant notifications about needing to upgrade project X because it depended on Y which depends on Z and Z has some DoS issue if you pass the wrong regex to it.

    I don't feel confident that rust won't go the same way when I tried to update the rust docs (https://github.com/rust-lang/docs.rs)

        cargo build
  • Publish pure ESM npm package written in TypeScript to JSR
    7 projects | dev.to | 12 May 2024
    Now JSR have changed this situation. After publishing the package, we can view API docs of each version (similar to docs.rs in Rust or pkg.go.dev in Go). All we have to do is to write few lines of JSON. Optionally you can publish a package from GitHub Actions by adding only few lines to a workflow file. Any other setup (install packages, write config for document generator...) is not needed.
  • Using GenAI to improve developer experience on AWS
    2 projects | dev.to | 23 Feb 2024
    Working in combination with CodeWhisperer in your IDE, you can send whole code sections to Amazon Q and ask for an explanation of what the selected code does. To show how this works, we open up the file.rs file cloned from this GitHub repository. This is part of an open source project to host documentation of crates for the Rust Programming Language, which is a language we are not familiar with.
  • TSDocs.dev: type docs for any JavaScript library
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Dec 2023
    Looks like a great initiative – I wish there was a reliable TS/JS equivalent of https://docs.rs (even considering rustdoc's deficiencies[1]).

    I went through this exercise recently and so far my experience with trying to produce documentation from a somewhat convoluted TS codebase[2] has been disappointing. I would claim it's a consequence of the library's public (user-facing) API substantially differing from how the actual implementation is structured.

    Typedoc produces bad results for that codebase so sphinx-js, which I wanted to use, doesn't have much to work with. I ultimately documented things by hand, for now, the way the API is meant to be used by the user.

    Compare:

    https://ts-results-es.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/api...

    vs

    https://tsdocs.dev/docs/ts-results-es/4.1.0-alpha.1/index.ht...

  • How did I need to know about feature rwh_05 for winit?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 6 Dec 2023
    Rust Search Extension adds a section on docs.rs menubar which lists the features of a crate in a nice and easy to access format.
  • Embassy on ESP: GPIO
    2 projects | dev.to | 3 Dec 2023
    📝 Note: At the time of writing this post, I couldn't really locate the init function docs.rs documentation. It didn't seem easily accessible through any of the current HAL implementation documentation. Nevertheless, I reached the signature of the function through the source here.
  • First Rust Package - Telegram Notification Framework (Feedback Appreciated)
    3 projects | /r/rust | 27 Nov 2023
    Rust Crates are a Game-Changer 🎮:The ease of releasing a crate with `cargo publish` and the convenience of rolling out new versions amazed me. The auto-generated docs on Docs.rs. is an amazing tool, especially with docstring formatting. Doc tests serve as a two-fold tool for documenting the code and ensuring it's up-to-date.
  • Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
    I've found I manually type out certain subsets of URLs where possible[0], maybe that's subconsciously associated with my impression that Google Search results have gotten worse and worse over the years.

    [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ and https://docs.rs/ come to mind.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ts-doc-gen-md and docs.rs you can also consider the following projects:

ts-docs - A documentation generator for typescript. Generate beautiful and informative documentation with zero setup!

crates.io - The Rust package registry

fliegdoc - A documentation generator for Typescript-based libraries with good support for monorepos

config-rs - ⚙️ Layered configuration system for Rust applications (with strong support for 12-factor applications).

log4brains - ✍️ Architecture Decision Records (ADR) management and publication tool

serenity - A Rust library for the Discord API.

awkdoc - Shell documentation generation from comment annotations.

tui-input - TUI input library supporting multiple backends, tui-rs and ratatui

magidoc - Autogenerate customizable static GraphQL API documentation

awesome-bevy - A collection of Bevy assets, plugins, learning resources, and apps made by the community

rfcs - Suggest changes to Bevy and view accepted designs

bevy-website - The source files for the official Bevy website

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