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Confluence vs Docsify: What are the differences?
Confluence: One place to share, find, and collaborate on information. 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; Docsify: A documentation site generator without the static html files. Docsify generates your documentation website on the fly without generating static html files. Instead, it loads and parses your Markdown files and displays them as a website.
Confluence and Docsify are primarily classified as "Project Management" and "Documentation as a Service &" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Confluence are:
- Spaces
- Pages
- Editor
On the other hand, Docsify provides the following key features:
- No statically built html files
- Simple and lightweight (~18kB gzipped)
- Smart full-text search plugin
Docsify is an open source tool with 17.3K GitHub stars and 4.18K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Docsify's open source repository on GitHub.
Facebook, Netflix, and Udemy are some of the popular companies that use Confluence, whereas Docsify is used by KVIKYMART, Mue, and Hype Industries. Confluence has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2287 company stacks & 13430 developers stacks; compared to Docsify, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 18 developer stacks.
Pros of Confluence
- Wiki search power94
- WYSIWYG editor62
- Full featured, works well with embedded docs43
- Expensive licenses3
Pros of Docsify
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Cons of Confluence
- Expensive license3