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Top 23 Doc Open-Source Projects

  • openai-cookbook

    Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API

  • Project mention: Ask HN: High quality Python scripts or small libraries to learn from | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-19

    https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples...

  • devdocs

    API Documentation Browser

  • Project mention: Every Dunder Method in Python | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-03

    > I've started to preface all python searches with 'site:python.org'

    You might find DevDocs to be useful: https://devdocs.io/

  • 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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  • docsify

    🃏 A magical documentation site generator.

  • Project mention: Alternatives to Docusaurus for product documentation | dev.to | 2024-04-04

    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.

  • gitbook

    The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites

  • Project mention: Alternatives to Docusaurus for product documentation | dev.to | 2024-04-04

    GitBook is a well-known online platform for developing, sharing, and publishing technical documentation. Although it’s not open source, it offers free and paid plans, with the free plan having limited features and functionalities. The paid plans unlock more features, such as custom domains, team collaboration, and advanced analytics.

  • docz

    ✍ It has never been so easy to document your things!

  • github-docs

    The open-source repo for docs.github.com

  • Project mention: 5 Tips For Writing Technical Documentation That Developers Love | dev.to | 2024-03-08

    In college, an English professor would ask me and other students the following question when reviewing our essays, “Where are the examples?” Developers ask the same question when reading your documentation. To write good technical writing documents, include examples that developers can see themselves implementing in their work. How can this be done? By adding examples from your product’s codebase! 🙂 Let’s look at this code snippet from my contribution to GitHub’s documentation:

  • JSDoc

    An API documentation generator for JavaScript.

  • Project mention: Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-07

    I wholeheartedly agree. At most, I introduce JSDoc[1] to newer developers as standardising how parameters and whatnot are commented at least gets you better documentation and _some_ safety without adding any TS knowledge overhead.

    [1] https://jsdoc.app/

  • 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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  • AspNetCore.Docs

    Documentation for ASP.NET Core

  • Project mention: DevDocs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-12

    Certain parts of Microsoft Learn are permissive, for example the .NET BCL documentation is Creative Commons Attribution: https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs as is ASP.NET Core: https://github.com/dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs (a good hint if documentation is permissively licensed and on GitHub is if there's an edit button at the top.)

    The C# language specification is unfortunately a bit fuzzier: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/4855

    The updated unified C# language specification is CC, but it's still catching up to modern C#: https://github.com/dotnet/csharpstandard

  • zeal

    Offline documentation browser inspired by Dash

  • Project mention: DevDocs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-12

    There's also Zeal (https://zealdocs.org/) which is basically the same as Dash but open source and runs on non-Mac devices.

  • Beautiful docs

    Pointers to useful, well-written, and otherwise beautiful documentation.

  • Project mention: 18 Must-Bookmark GitHub Repositories Every Developer Should Know | dev.to | 2024-02-12
  • Read the Docs

    The source code that powers readthedocs.org

  • Project mention: Ask HN: ReadTheDocs Became Proprietary Now? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-16

    I went to https://readthedocs.org/ and redirected me to https://about.readthedocs.com/?ref=readthedocs.org which looks proprietary now, with pricing and such.

    Is it the end of this project, as we know it?

    Can someone enlighten me please?

  • About-SwiftUI

    Gathering all info published, both by Apple and by others, about new framework SwiftUI.

  • sphinx

    The Sphinx documentation generator

  • Project mention: 5 Best Static Site Generators in Python | dev.to | 2023-11-24

    Sphinx is primarily known as a documentation generator, but it can also be used to create static websites. It excels in generating technical documentation, and its support for multiple output formats, including HTML and PDF, makes it a versatile tool. Sphinx uses reStructuredText for content creation and is highly extensible through plugins.

  • standard-readme

    A standard style for README files

  • The-Documentation-Compendium

    📢 Various README templates & tips on writing high-quality documentation that people want to read.

  • Project mention: 5 coding habits you need to stop! | dev.to | 2023-05-24

    The Documentation Compendium

  • codehike

    Marvellous code walkthroughs

  • Assemble

    Get the rocks out of your socks! Assemble makes you fast at web development! Used by thousands of projects for rapid prototyping, themes, scaffolds, boilerplates, e-books, UI components, API documentation, blogs, building websites/static site generator, an alternative to Jekyll for gh-pages and more! Gulp- and grunt-friendly.

  • docx

    Easily generate and modify .docx files with JS/TS with a nice declarative API. Works for Node and on the Browser.

  • Project mention: Ajuda docx | /r/programacao | 2023-06-19
  • scalar

    Beautiful API references from OpenAPI/Swagger files ✨

  • Project mention: Show HN: Nuxt.js OpenAPI / Swagger API Reference Documentation | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-20
  • godot-docs

    Godot Engine official documentation

  • Project mention: Free Godot Engine for Official Switch Developers | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-23

    There are a few companies to choose from here: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/blob/master/tutori...

  • docs

    The Laravel documentation. (by laravel)

  • Project mention: Laravel: A Comprehensive Guide to Service Container and Providers | dev.to | 2024-02-16

    Laravel Documentation : The official Laravel documentation (https://laravel.com/docs) is a resource for of all levels. It undergoes regular updates and comprehensively covers everything from basics to advanced features.

  • docs-next

    📄 Documentation for Vue 3

  • cloudflare-docs

    Cloudflare’s documentation

  • Project mention: It's now possible to find the AWS Account ID for any S3 Bucket (private too) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-26

    Slightly related - CloudFlare account_id and zone_id are safe to be public

    https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-docs/issues/474

    https://community.cloudflare.com/t/api-zone-id/355566

    > The Zone ID and Account ID are not sensitive. Sensitive data like account API Key, Secrets etc. can all be revoked, rotated or changed. See the comment 36 below on the Wrangler repo: as per our security team, it’s completely Fine to have your zone_id and account_id public, the Global API key and associated email address should be kept secret.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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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).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Doc projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 openai-cookbook 55,805
2 devdocs 33,858
3 docsify 26,611
4 gitbook 26,337
5 docz 23,494
6 github-docs 15,511
7 JSDoc 14,742
8 AspNetCore.Docs 12,348
9 zeal 11,052
10 Beautiful docs 8,874
11 Read the Docs 7,870
12 About-SwiftUI 6,930
13 sphinx 6,032
14 standard-readme 5,904
15 The-Documentation-Compendium 5,434
16 codehike 4,227
17 Assemble 4,219
18 docx 3,926
19 scalar 3,583
20 godot-docs 3,423
21 docs 2,905
22 docs-next 2,788
23 cloudflare-docs 2,565

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