Just-the-docs Alternatives

just-the-docs reviews and mentions

• Gojekyll – 20x faster Go port of jekyll
  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2023

  I think GitHub Pages only supports a whitelist of plugins, so you might have some more difficulties solving it well without any plugins. I use Netlify for my site, which does support arbitrary plugins.

  One quick way to make it faster is to include that "_includes/nav.html" only in a nav.html, and then use an iframe to load that on every page, or something like that.

  Anyway, I'm not the first to notice this it seems, although even "twice as fast" would still be quite slow: https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs/issues/1323

• Having the rules and mechanics easily accessible in a webpage/site.
  4 projects | /r/rpg | 3 Feb 2023

  If it can help, there was a commenter earlier who suggested trying out a Doc-style github page that you can easily fork. It also has its own built-in search. Comment here. Github page here.

• Looking for advice: does any one use GitHub/GitClassroom to store and mange their course content?
  1 project | /r/Professors | 14 Jan 2023

  So the basic idea is I use the Jekyll site generator (which is already built into GitHub pages, but you can also install locally), and this is the theme I use: https://just-the-docs.github.io/just-the-docs/

• Is legit to use Github pages for non-coding purposes?
  2 projects | /r/github | 30 Nov 2022
• Keep your diagrams updated with continuous delivery
  7 projects | dev.to | 29 Nov 2022
• Open Source Like
  5 projects | /r/RPGdesign | 5 Sep 2022

  That's certainly an option. Games like Liminal Horror and Into the Dungeon Revived host versions on GitHub. You can then render it to a GitHub.io page using something like Just the Docs.

• Compiling findings to website
  1 project | /r/EXHINDU | 31 Jul 2022

  The pages are written in markdown and the site has an in-built search feature. I am using the https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs jekyll theme.

• Atlassian Patch Critical Confluence Hardcoded Credentials Bug
  1 project | /r/programming | 21 Jul 2022

  The only people that like confluence have Stockholm syndrome. I'd argue that a wiki is the old people way of thinking. In most orgs a wiki is where data goes to die but some asshole keeps throwing data in there to appease some other asshole. I rather search slack, https://github.com/just-the-docs/just-the-docs, project boards in github, anything is better than confluence and I couldn't agree more that confluence search is the biggest piece of shit ever, it's worse than useless, it wastes your time.

• Ask HN: What do people use for documentation sites these days?
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2022

  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!

• Tags-based documentation build (contextual documentation)
  3 projects | /r/Jekyll | 20 Dec 2021

  You can use 'Just the Docs' (https://github.com/pmarsceill/just-the-docs) for documentation - it's a Jekyll-based theme for documentation and has built-in search.

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