VuePress VS Docusaurus

VuePress is a minimalistic Vue-powered static site generator optimized for technical documentation and websites with a focus on content. It is suitable for creating documentation websites, blogs, and other content-focused projects.

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.

I'm new to IA Writer, and I'm wanting to use it to draft posts for my Vuepress site.

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!

VuePress

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.

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.

Static site generators like Docusaurus offer flexibility for teams comfortable with Markdown and Git workflows

I really like the idea and what you’re building here. That said, I’d argue the documentation website is the face of any open-source project. Reinventing the wheel rarely ends well — the current docs are hard to navigate and read.

Just use an off-the-shelf solution for docs, like Docusaurus, for example:

https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus

Static websites are so good that they even have their own three-letter abbreviation: SSG (Static Site Generation). And of course, there are plenty of frameworks that generate them for you, no need in manual labour: Next.js supports SSG, Gatsby is still pretty popular, lots of people love Docusaurus, Astro promises the best performance, and probably many more.

hCaptcha docs is built using Docusaurus and their developer guide provides a vanilla example, but there’s framework specific examples provided as well.

Create visibility: A good mental model of your systems, data and code is beneficial to solving for errors so create tangible mind maps or documentation for the whole team to benefit from. Miro and Docusaurus are excellent tools for this.

VitePress and Docusaurus seem decent. I think VitePress might be more suited to blogging, but I admit I haven’t actually used or tested either.

https://docusaurus.io/

https://vitepress.dev/

For efficient workflows, Commander.js offers a custom CLI, while Docusaurus powers documentation, ensuring that everything is easy to find and well-maintained.

I am aware of Docusaurus, since I have seen other documentation and some of our course material site built on it. Under the hood it uses React so I was familiar with it. But this documentation website was written in Python. Although I'm not a fan of Python, it intrigued me, since not only it is written in python, more specifically using Sphinx which utilizes reStructuredText as its markup language. There was Makefile in it as well. A lot of new things but it looked very interesting.

Docusaurus (https://docusaurus.io) is a well-regarded open-source tool for building documentation websites. It is a static-site generator that builds a single-page application leveraging the full power of React. However, it does not provide any kind of authentication out of the box. Adding authentication is crucial for securing access to your documentation.

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I want to avoid JavaScript lock-in at all costs.

https://docusaurus.io/ (far from being a one-liner, still uses JavaScript)