Top 9 JavaScript documentation-tool Projects

docsify

10 22,642 8.8 JavaScript

🃏 A magical documentation site generator.

Project mention: Docsify.js single-page apps are indexable on Google! | dev.to | 2023-01-28
eleventy 🕚⚡️

108 13,645 9.2 JavaScript

A simpler static site generator. An alternative to Jekyll. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.

Project mention: Looking to connect a plain HTML/CSS site to Strapi CMS for dynamic blogs. Easiest way to do this? | reddit.com/r/webdev | 2023-02-04

If next is feeling too heavy for you, maybe look into eleventy. It's a lightweight static site generator that you can easily suck remote serial content into.
Appwrite

appwrite.io
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Appwrite - The Open Source Firebase alternative introduces iOS support . Appwrite is an open source backend server that helps you build native iOS applications much faster with realtime APIs for authentication, databases, files storage, cloud functions and much more!
documentation.js

0 5,644 8.2 JavaScript

:book: documentation for modern JavaScript
codecrumbs

0 2,642 0.0 JavaScript

Learn, design or document codebase by putting breadcrumbs in source code. Live updates, multi-language support and more.
Documize

6 1,771 7.9 JavaScript

Modern Confluence alternative designed for internal & external docs, built with Go + EmberJS (by documize)

Project mention: Recommendation for a Company-Wiki | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 2023-01-15

Try Documize or Ghost with a documentation theme.
retype

15 668 8.5 JavaScript

Retype is an ✨ ultra-high-performance✨ static site generator that builds a website based on simple text files.

Project mention: How to turn a folder of markdown docs into a structured docs section in an app? | reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming | 2022-11-29

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.
chappe

1 151 5.3 JavaScript

🧑‍💻 Developer Docs builder. Write guides in Markdown and references in API Blueprint. Comes with a built-in search engine.

Project mention: Rest API : After CRUD | dev.to | 2022-03-01

You can find it here : https://github.com/crisp-oss/chappe
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com
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Build time-series-based applications quickly and at scale.. InfluxDB is the Time Series Platform where developers build real-time applications for analytics, IoT and cloud-native services. Easy to start, it is available in the cloud or on-premises.
offline-docs

6 43 4.0 JavaScript

A collection of scripts to build offline documentation for your favourite frameworks/libraries. Simply search, copy/paste the commands and enjoy.

Project mention: Hacktoberfest Conclusion | dev.to | 2022-10-31

After this I really hit the ball rolling and was able to find more issues to work on. One thing that I enjoyed was that all of my PRs were drastically different from each other. I worked on correcting documentation for AdonisJS, fixed a HTTP Content-Type Header bug in tiny-http, and then finally even created a short script for users to load up their own local version of the Electron documentation site.
simple-docs

0 8 2.5 JavaScript

Simple documentation tool

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). The latest post mention was on 2023-02-04.