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CommentsDocsify vs Read the Docs vs Swagger UI
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It 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. | 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 | 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. |
Github and Bitbucket Integration;Auto-updating;Internationalization;Canonical URLs; Versions;Version Control Support Matrix;PDF Generation;Search;Alternate Domains | The UI works in any development environment, be it locally or in the web;Allow end developers to effortlessly interact and try out every single operation your API exposes for easy consumption;Quickly find and work with resources and endpoints with neatly categorized documentation;Cater to every possible scenario with Swagger UI working in all major browsers | No statically built html files;Simple and lightweight (~18kB gzipped);Smart full-text search plugin;Multiple themes;Useful plugin API;Emoji support;Compatible with IE10+;Supports SSR |
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GitHub Stars - | GitHub Stars 28.3K | GitHub Stars - |
GitHub Forks - | GitHub Forks 9.2K | GitHub Forks - |
Stacks 71 | Stacks 2.1K | Stacks 37 |
Followers 289 | Followers 1.8K | Followers 136 |
Votes 22 | Votes 207 | Votes 0 |
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