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Top 12 JavaScript documentation-tool Projects
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eleventy 🕚⚡️
A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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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.
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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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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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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.
Docsify is frequently updated; the latest release was on June 24, 2023, and the most recent update was on December 17, 2023. It is MIT-licensed and has an active Discord community.
This post outlines the steps for migrating an existing BlogCFC blog to a JamStack, with a focus on using Eleventy.
Project mention: Looking for collaboration platform (preferably open source, alternative to Confluence) | /r/selfhosted | 2023-05-06You could try Documize https://github.com/documize/community
Project mention: MdBook – Create book from Markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-29
Finally a cool wiki for .net (windows, Linux and Mac) and SQL Server. Badass feature set and still actively developed on GitHub: https://github.com/NTDLS/TightWiki
Github repo for the project: https://github.com/PaulleDemon/BrowseDocs
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 related posts
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Converting BlogCFC blog to Eleventy
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Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator?
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Eleventy - Create a global production flag
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VS Code - Fix a task automation issue - `The terminal process failed to launch (exit code: 127`
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You don't need JavaScript for that
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Eleventy components woes
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Eleventy Style Guide Generator with WebC Component Support
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A note from our sponsor - SurveyJS
surveyjs.io | 4 May 2024
Index
What are some of the best open-source documentation-tool projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | docsify | 26,658 |
| 2 | eleventy 🕚⚡️ | 16,249 |
| 3 | documentation.js | 5,762 |
| 4 | codecrumbs | 2,687 |
| 5 | Documize | 2,067 |
| 6 | retype | 982 |
| 7 | chappe | 199 |
| 8 | offline-docs | 90 |
| 9 | chatdocs | 37 |
| 10 | simple-docs | 8 |
| 11 | TightWiki | 7 |
| 12 | BrowseDocs | 4 |
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