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The Sacred Steps to Achieving Good Documentation

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    Cybernetically enhanced web apps
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Of course, the correct tool, as usual, depends on the requirements of your project. For an API, Apiary might be your best choice, if you want a more generalized documentation you Read the Docs might give you a quick and free way to have your documentation up and running, however if you really want a lot more control over styling and such, docussaurus can really help. There is also a last option which is quite rare though: just make a static website from the ground up. You can use React, Svelte, or really anything you want to build a documentation site. It's a lot more work than any of the previous options, but if you truly believe you need to control every single aspect  of your documentation it is still a possibility.

    #Javascript UI Libraries #JavaScript Framework #JS Library 352 social mentions

  2. A free, static web host for open-source projects on GitHub
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    The first big challenge you might face is which platform to use for your docs. Some simple projects just use the github wiki as a way to serve the documentation, which works well for simpler things, but the reality is that, for medium to large projects, such tools are far from being enough, so you'll probably have to resort to some other options such as Apiary, Read the Docs or even a combination of tools, such as Github Pages and Docussaurus, which was what we used for Meta-System.

    #Static Site Generators #Cloud Computing #Blogging 466 social mentions

  3. Easy to maintain open source documentation websites
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    The first big challenge you might face is which platform to use for your docs. Some simple projects just use the github wiki as a way to serve the documentation, which works well for simpler things, but the reality is that, for medium to large projects, such tools are far from being enough, so you'll probably have to resort to some other options such as Apiary, Read the Docs or even a combination of tools, such as Github Pages and Docussaurus, which was what we used for Meta-System.

    #Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Static Site Generators 192 social mentions

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    Collaborative design, instant API mock, generated documentation, integrated code samples, debugging and automated testing
    The first big challenge you might face is which platform to use for your docs. Some simple projects just use the github wiki as a way to serve the documentation, which works well for simpler things, but the reality is that, for medium to large projects, such tools are far from being enough, so you'll probably have to resort to some other options such as Apiary, Read the Docs or even a combination of tools, such as Github Pages and Docussaurus, which was what we used for Meta-System.

    #API Tools #APIs #API Management 7 social mentions

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