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Looking for open source documentation generator

4 points by withshubh · 6 comments · 1 min read


I have worked with docusauras and I believe that initially, it requires too much developer effort to make it look beautiful or customise.

Got to know about Docus.dev and Nextra.site but didn't find any examples that have API docs (using OpenAPI specs)

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mikewarot

Good documentation can't be automated. It requires someone to carefully craft working examples of all the parameters and functions that are available, so you can copy/paste them into a program to try them out.

I'd expect at least two separate people are required... a writer and an editor.

flexwie

Astro has tools to build documentation from OpenAPI specs. Found it a bit easier to get started with customization compared to docusaurus.

warrenm

First problem ... define what you mean by "documentation"

We talking javadocs? MSDN? IBM developerWorks? Docs.Splunk? ReadTheDocs.io? GitHub readme.md? ...?

  • withshubhOP

    Did you check the websites I mentioned in the description?

    • warrenm

      Yes - but that's still not automating the documentation ... it's only [potentially] automating presenting it

      So ... back to my initial narrowing-down inquiry :)

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