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Top 11 JavaScript documentation-tool Projects
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I built a fast, responsive, and lightweight static documentation site powered by Docsify, hosted on AWS S3 with a CloudFront CDN for global distribution. The entire infrastructure is managed using Pulumi YAML, allowing me to declaratively define and deploy resources without writing any imperative code.
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eleventy 🕚⚡️
A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
Project mention: Ow I Blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare – Zero Cost Owned | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-23I have a sort of similar setup but I haven't started using Obsidian yet, it's on my todo list. I use Eleventy instead of Hugo, with its simple Eleventy-Base-Blog starter template. I use Github action to publish to Github pages instead of using Cloudflare. It's a nascent site/blog, haven't written much, no images yet, so I don't see the need for something more than Github pages right now.
One thing I don't see the author mention that is part of what I plan to do with Obsidian is use Syncthing (which I already use for other things) so I can work on a post when I'm not at my laptop. Probably just to write down ideas/notes and then fully work it out when I get to my laptop.
If the blog author is here, curious if they commit drafts to their repo or not. I personally don't commit drafts. Besides also using 'draft: true` in the front-matter, I gitignore any markdown file where the filename starts with the word "draft". When I'm ready to publish I rename the file.
https://www.11ty.dev/
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-base-blog
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codecrumbs
Learn, design or document codebase by putting breadcrumbs in source code. Live updates, multi-language support and more.
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Documize
Modern Confluence alternative designed for internal & external docs, built with Go + EmberJS (by documize)
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retype
Retype is an ultra-high-performance static site generator that builds a website based on simple text files. Made in Canada 🇨🇦.
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chappe
🧑💻 Developer Docs builder. Write guides in Markdown and references in API Blueprint. Comes with a built-in search engine.
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offline-docs
A collection of scripts to build offline documentation for your favourite frameworks/libraries. Simply search, copy/paste the commands and enjoy.
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browsedocs.com (a useful domain if you plan on building SaaS related to documentation/ enterprise documentation)
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
JavaScript documentation-tool discussion
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Enhance an 11ty site at the edge
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Index
What are some of the best open-source documentation-tool projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | docsify | 29,187 |
| 2 | eleventy 🕚⚡️ | 17,992 |
| 3 | documentation.js | 5,788 |
| 4 | codecrumbs | 2,715 |
| 5 | Documize | 2,218 |
| 6 | retype | 1,157 |
| 7 | chappe | 220 |
| 8 | offline-docs | 112 |
| 9 | chatdocs | 39 |
| 10 | simple-docs | 8 |
| 11 | BrowseDocs | 4 |
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