Ask HN: What do people use for documentation sites these days?

• just-the-docs

  17 7,002 8.4 SCSS

  A modern, high customizable, responsive Jekyll theme for documentation with built-in search.

  

https://pmarsceill.github.io/just-the-docs/

Especially if you're already familiar with Jekyll. Bonus points for being able to deploy on GitHub Pages!

• MkDocs

  114 18,257 9.0 Python

  Project documentation with Markdown.

  

I use https://www.mkdocs.org/, which is markdown-based. It's simple to get started and customizable enough if needed.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  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.

  

• redux

  268 60,454 9.0 TypeScript

  A JS library for predictable global state management

  

• Docusaurus

  282 52,824 9.5 TypeScript

  Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.

  

• docusaurus-search-local

  3 414 2.4 JavaScript

  Offline / Local Search for Docusaurus v2. Try it live at:

If & when relevant: from looking into self-hosted search options to accompany docusaurus, https://github.com/cmfcmf/docusaurus-search-local looks like one potential candidate (search is performed locally; so your mileage may vary based on the document set size).

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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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