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Projects with Great Documentation

Nick Taylor on September 28, 2020

I'm looking to compile a list of projects with great documentation so as to provide examples to contributors and maintainers for Hacktoberfest.

Some projects with great documentation that come to mind are React and Vue.

What's a project that you know of that has great documentation?

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Matteo Bruni

tsParticles uses typedoc to create basic documentation, I created also a customized theme with markdown support to add custom pages with more details, readme are also a good point to start.

github.com/matteobruni/tsparticles

I’m updating that right now and if someone has some good ideas is welcome to contribute

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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!

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Daniel Kantor
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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

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Lakshya Singh

Python is ❤️

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Mike Bybee • Edited

React Spring (though I wish the library itself would hurry up with v9 and especially Reanimated support).

The "preliminary docs as issues" approach of Jotai (under the org formerly known as React Spring) is beautiful, and @dai_shi is a shining example of maintainer involvement in them (and all Jotai issues).

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Nick Taylor

Yeah!

A T-Rex saying Yeah!

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Fulton Browne

not sure if it counts. But the arch wiki is the ultimate source of linux knowledge wiki.archlinux.org/

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Nick Taylor

Bobby Moynahan character from SNL saying awesome!

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YJDoc2

Rust has one of the best language documentation I have come across :
doc.rust-lang.org/std/index.html
doc.rust-lang.org/book/
Rust-wasm has really great 'getting started' docs : rustwasm.github.io/docs/book/intro...
Rustling course has a nice readme : github.com/rust-lang/rustlings

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Django

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Nick Taylor

Pam from The Office saying Nice!

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David Johnston

The MDN documentation. :)

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Nick Taylor

It's True - Dwight Shrute

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Rafi
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Nick Taylor

Now you’re making us blush. 😊

Actor Zach Galifianakis giving a thumbs up in a convertible car

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Nick Taylor

Now docs.Forem.com 😎

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Robin Gagnon

Stripe docs have to make the list

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Robin Gagnon

Also worked recently with stenciljs and enjoyed reading through the docs

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

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yaythomas

great inspirational tech docs sites listed here!

if you're looking for an example of a smaller open-source project: pypyr

the docs are generated with the awesome Hugo static site generator, and the theme itself is also open-source, so if you like, you can make your own.

warning: I might be a bit predisposed to like this one, because I made it 😆

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Nick Taylor

The docs look great! 👏🏻

Croc mascot nodding

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yaythomas

thank you so much! 🙌

I tried hard to make something functional but also have it look a bit more designed (without going overboard).

So the nod from the cool alligator makes it all worth it 😎

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Vitor Paladini • Edited

threejs.org/docs is very good!

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scroung720

THREE JS

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice

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Benedicte (Queen) Raae

I think Vue is the best I have come across, I started reading it like a book. This was years ago... But also I really enjoy using Material-UI and part of that is because their docs are good.

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Amruta Ranade • Edited

cockroachlabs.com/docs ❤️

We are accepting Hacktoberfest contributions: github.com/cockroachdb/docs/issues...

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Nick Taylor

Kylo Ren on Undercover Boss giving a thumbs up

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Maxim Orlov

The docs of pg-promise are very detailed. I also like json-server because it's easy to follow.

@dayhaysoos ' project use-shopping-cart has a Q&A type approach which is very helpful.

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Bobby Iliev
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Nick Taylor

Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek TNG saying Well done!

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Ayrton

Hey !
Strapi has a good doc's
strapi.io/documentation/v3.x/getti...

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Nick Taylor

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perpetual . education

+1 for Vue as a great set of docs.

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bimlas
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Nick Taylor

That's awesome! 🔥

Yes, that's awesome!

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Rajesh Jaga
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Lakshya Singh

Best docs ever vuejs for sure

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Nick Taylor

Amy Poehler being cool

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ENDEESA

Vagrant

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Nick Taylor

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Tobias Nickel

php, on php.net, you not only find the documentation, but also very useful examples, that help to understand the functionality

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Nick Taylor

Kirk and Bones nodding to each other in Star Trek

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Nick Taylor

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Yozen Hernandez
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Nick Taylor

Hot Rod saying Cool beans!

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Fadi Khadra

react-toastify is not that bad

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Nick Taylor

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Paweł Śmigielski
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Nick Taylor

TV personality saying Frickin' awesome!

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Shubham Zanwar

Check out vue-nodegui. It's a cross platform desktop app library with vue.

docs at: vue.nodegui.org
repo link: github.com/nodegui/vue-nodegui

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Nick Taylor

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Alain D'Ettorre
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Nick Taylor

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Madhur Malpani

Fastapi (fastapi.tiangolo.com/) : micro back end framework written in python

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Frédéric Bonnet

Docsify, which as a matter of fact is a documentation site generator.

docsify.js.org/

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Ian Cowley

Hashicorp has great docs: learn.hashicorp.com/

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Hozefa

next.js has one of the best documentation imo. Very concise, straightforward and easy to comprehend.

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Nick Taylor

Stephen Colbert saying Awesome Sauce

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Johnny C-L

RedwoodJS has amazing docs