Slate API Docs Generator might be a bit more popular than reStructuredText. We know about 13 links to it since March 2021 and only 9 links to reStructuredText. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Https://github.com/slatedocs/slate this ! Big company use it ( stripe etc ). Source: over 1 year ago
The second most common question being "What framework does Stripe use to build their documentation?" and the answer has unfortunately always been "They use a custom setup they built themselves and isn't available." - so then Slate gets brought up as a suitable replacement. Source: about 2 years ago
DocuAPI is a multilingual API documentation theme for Hugo created and maintained by Bjørn Erik Pedersen, the lead maintainer and co-creator of Hugo itself. It’s built on top of the Slate API docs generator, which itself was inspired by Stripe’s and PayPal’s API docs. The JavaScript section of DocuAPI has been rewritten from Jquery to AlpineJS.. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago
I've used Slate to document APIs which similarly will produce a local website. You can host that privately or there's built in support to push to github pages if you're hosting it in a github repo. The documentation itself is all written in markdown and managed separate from your API code. Source: about 2 years ago
We used to use Slate - https://github.com/slatedocs/slate for our APIs in my previous job. That was pretty neat. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Markup language: Markup language is used to write documents in a way that distinguishes them from plain text. Most SSGs utilize lightweight markup languages, such as Markdown. However, alternatives like AsciiDoc, Textile, and ReStructuredText are also used. These lightweight languages simplify content creation and are converted into HTML during the site generation process. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago
Uses Sphinx, reStructuredText And the sphinx-rtd-theme for writing, building And rendering the documentation. Source: 9 months ago
If we're dreaming, ReStructed Text support. Source: about 1 year ago
You can always switch to rst¹ and sphinx² to produce html/pdf came join the dark side, we have tables³ :) 1. https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
ReStrutucturedText is still useful to look at for inspiration here. It had the concepts of extensible metadata ("field lists"), spans ("interpreted text"), and blocks ("directives"). Including things like applying metadata to spans (using essentially Footnotes to provide field lists to interpreted text sections, like but better than Markdown's reference style for hyperlinks which almost no one uses but were much... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
Doxygen - Generate documentation from source code
Asciidoctor - In the spirit of free software, everyone is encouraged to help improve this project.
Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites
Markdown by DaringFireball - Text-to-HTML conversion tool/syntax for web writers, by John Gruber
Compodoc - The missing documentation tool for your Angular application
pandoc - Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line...