Ask HN: What are your favorite tools for generating simple documentation?

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  • Hugo

    The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

  • https://gohugo.io which supports writing in multiple common formats (asciidoc, markdown, ...) and generates a static html website. You can of course add javascript or frameworks if you like

  • mkdocs-material

    Documentation that simply works

  • Thanks to everyone who commented. I ended up using Material for MkDocs (https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/). Fits all my requirements nicely.

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