ESDoc vs Read the Docs

Read the Docs vs ESDoc: What are the differences?

What is Read the Docs? Create, host, and browse documentation. Read the Docs hosts documentation, making it fully searchable and easy to find. You can import your docs using any major version control system, including Mercurial, Git, Subversion, and Bazaar. We support webhooks so your docs get built when you commit code. There's also support for versioning so you can build docs from tags and branches of your code in your repository.

What is ESDoc? Used to generate the documentation of JavaScript projects. It obtains a comment called doc comment from a source code. Then it generates a document from a tag in a doc comment.

Read the Docs and ESDoc can be categorized as "Documentation as a Service &" tools.

Some of the features offered by Read the Docs are:

• Github and Bitbucket Integration
• Auto-updating
• Internationalization

On the other hand, ESDoc provides the following key features:

• Generates good documentation
• Measures documentation coverage
• Integrate test codes into documentation

Read the Docs is an open source tool with 5.36K GitHub stars and 2.91K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Read the Docs's open source repository on GitHub.