What is Docusaurus?
Docusaurus is a project for easily building, deploying, and maintaining open source project websites.
Docusaurus is a tool in the Documentation as a Service & Tools category of a tech stack.
Docusaurus is an open source tool with 56.7K GitHub stars and 8.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Docusaurus's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Docusaurus?
Companies
59 companies reportedly use Docusaurus in their tech stacks, including Facebook, Shelf, and Buzzvil.
Developers
124 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Docusaurus.
Docusaurus Integrations
React, Markdown, Algolia, Crowdin, and MockIt (open source) are some of the popular tools that integrate with Docusaurus. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Docusaurus.
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Decisions about Docusaurus
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Docusaurus in their tech stack.
Salina Acharya
Senior Software Engineer at Datamine Software · | 6 upvotes · 163.3K views
Hello, I need to write documentation for my React codebase. I am tossing between Docusaurus and jsdoc. I liked everything about Docusaurus but then it doesn't seem to generate a web file like jsdoc does once the code is commented with the required tags. I was hoping I could get some advice on which tool to go with for my React application.
Docusaurus's Features
- Powered by Markdown
- Built using React
- Ready for translations
- Document versioning
- Document search
- Quick setup
Docusaurus Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Docusaurus?
Confluence
Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.
Gitbook
It is a modern documentation platform where teams can document everything from products, to APIs and internal knowledge-bases. It is a place to think and track ideas for you & your team.
MkDocs
It builds completely static HTML sites that you can host on GitHub pages, Amazon S3, or anywhere else you choose. There's a stack of good looking themes available. The built-in dev-server allows you to preview your documentation as you're writing it. It will even auto-reload and refresh your browser whenever you save your changes.
VuePress
A minimalistic static site generator with a Vue-powered theming system, and a default theme optimized for writing technical documentation. It was created to support the documentation needs of Vue's own sub projects.
Hugo
Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data.
