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What's the best documentation you have ever read?

Consider the documentations of all the languages, frameworks, libraries, editors, extensions, etc you have ever read.

What's the most well written and structured you can re-call?

Personally it would be Vue docs for me.

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Shannon Crabill

I haven't gotten too deep into it, but I like the Gatsby.js documentation. From what I remember, there were quick start instructions and a more in depth versions. I do not see choose-your-own documentation often.

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Ecolipsy

I guess the best documentation I have read is the Python docs.

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Petr Ε vihlΓ­k

I love the new MS docs. They explain the history, general patterns and how they translate to (ASP).NET, and what are the best practices, e.g.:

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Sam E. Lawrence

So far I've been very happy with the Cypress documentation.

docs.cypress.io/guides/overview/wh...

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Madza

First time I hear of that, tbh :)

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Matt King

Visual Basic v3 Documentation
It was broad, easy to read with lots of code snippets.
It also came as a proper paper set of books including a separate book with a guide to all functions in alphabetical order.

I'd never read something before or since that made development so straightforward.

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Anmol Shukla

Postman offers really good API documentation generator right out of the box. All you have to do is add your API requests, give them descriptions and you're done!

You can also customise appearance and have them served on your custom domain!

Check them out here:

learning.getpostman.com/docs/postm...
youtube.com/watch?v=Ayo_KdLLcTA

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Hitesh Burla

Easily React Docs!!
at least in what I've gone through so far...

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Ampersanda

Flutter Official Documentation is for me, the best documentation I've ever read. It even gives you tutorial of getting started from another platform before you do "fluttering".

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Brian Via

Stripe!!!
stripe.com/docs

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E Elkan

I really like the Postman documentation.

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Madza

The tool itself is great, too :)