DocGen vs Nanoc
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It is a static-site generator, fit for building anything from a small personal blog to a large corporate website. | DocGen is a command-line documentation tool for software products. It takes plain text or CommonMark (Markdown) as input, and generates both a static website and a PDF copy. |
Support for free-form metadata;
Support for various markup languages (Markdown, AsciiDoc, Textile, …);
Support for various templating languages (eRuby, Haml, Mustache, …);
Ability to write custom filters and helpers;
Ability to pull in data from other sources (databases, web APIs, …);
Integration with various deployment mechanisms;
Ability to run pre-deployment checks | - |
Statistics | |
GitHub Stars 2.1K | GitHub Stars 50 |
GitHub Forks 249 | GitHub Forks 15 |
Stacks 4 | Stacks 15 |
Followers 3 | Followers 26 |
Votes 0 | Votes 0 |
Integrations | |
What are some alternatives to Nanoc, DocGen?
Postman
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Jekyll
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Swagger UI
Swagger UI is a dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation and sandbox from a Swagger-compliant API
Hugo
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Gatsby
Gatsby lets you build blazing fast sites with your data, whatever the source. Liberate your sites from legacy CMSs and fly into the future.
Apiary
It takes more than a simple HTML page to thrill your API users. The right tools take weeks of development. Weeks that apiary.io saves.
Hexo
Hexo is a fast, simple and powerful blog framework. It parses your posts with Markdown or other render engine and generates static files with the beautiful theme. All of these just take seconds.
ReadMe.io
It is an easy-to-use tool to help you build out documentation! Each documentation site that you publish is a project where there is space for documentation, interactive API reference guides, a changelog, and much more.
Middleman
Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment.
Gridsome
Build websites using latest web tech tools that developers love - Vue.js, GraphQL and Webpack. Get hot-reloading and all the power of Node.js. Gridsome makes building websites fun again.
