Docpress VS DocFX

Docpress

Painless Markdown publishing Documentation website generator.

DocFX

A documentation generation tool for API reference and Markdown files!

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Docpress

Website: docpress.github.io
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DocFX

Website: dotnet.github.io
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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Docpress and DocFX)

DocFX

Documentation

27 27%

Documentation

73% 73

Tool

100 100%

Tool

0% 0

Documentation As A Service & Tools

19 19%

Documentation As A Service & Tools

81% 81

Development

45 45%

Development

55% 55

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Docpress mentions (0)

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DocFX mentions (7)

TSDocs.dev: type docs for any JavaScript library
This is a better looking version of what Java and C# have had for a long time (kudos to the author for that!), is that the inspiration for this tool? https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/windows/javadoc.html https://dotnet.github.io/docfx/ I saw the author mentioned in another comment that they found themselves peeping inside type declaration files "too often". While I do often use sites generated... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
What Does Microsoft Use to Create their KB Articles?
Actually, we use it for OptiTune, it's called "docfx" https://dotnet.github.io/docfx/. Source: about 2 years ago
Library / Codebase Documentation - Multiple aggregated libraries - How to create? DocFx does not support this?
We would really prefer to use a somewhat generic pre-made tool for this (such as DocFX) compared to rolling our own solution. We can roll our own solution... But would prefer not to so that we can minimize development and maintenance overhead. Source: over 2 years ago
CSharp Docuementation Site
I use docfx from microsoft to generate documentation for all my oss libraries. Source: over 2 years ago
What platform is Microsoft Docs hosted on?
My best guess would be that there's a CI/CD pipeline in GitHub that utilizes DocFX to convert the Markdown files to HTML. The constructed HTML files are then placed in an Azure Storage account that configured for Static Website Hosting combined with Azure CDN. Source: over 2 years ago