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10 Open-Source Documentation Frameworks to Check Out

Silvia O'Dwyer on February 21, 2025

So you want to build a documentation site for your project? Well, you've arrived at the right place! We'll be taking a look at a selection of docu...
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fmerian • Edited

I love beautiful docs. I stumbled upon Fumadocs a few months ago and it was love at first sight—Next.js-based, beautiful out-of-the-box, used by products like Ultracite and v0. Recommend 10/10.

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Silvia O'Dwyer • Edited

I agree! Fumadocs looks amazing, I was so glad to have discovered it. Definitely going to make use of it at some point for future library docs. It has a stunning user interface overall, I must say.
Thanks for reading! 🙌

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Roberto B.

thank you for sharing this great list.
I’m using Starlight and it is super!

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Silvia O'Dwyer

I agree, Starlight is a fantastic docs theme! And Astro is so useful for generating static sites.
Thanks for reading, Roberto! 🙌

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Martin Sarosi

Antora?

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Silvia O'Dwyer

Thanks for recommending Antora! I'll add it to the list next :-)

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Madhurima Rawat

Great list 🌟 Very helpful tools

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GigAHerZ

No eleventy? :O

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Silvia O'Dwyer

Ooh Eleventy looks great for documentation sites, I will update the article to include Eleventy too. Thanks for recommending it :-)

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Peter Galiba

Where is Storybook, one of the most used frameworks to build any UI documentation?

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Silvia O'Dwyer

Great point, I will update the article to include Storybook for UI component documentation too. ✅ Thanks for reading! 🙌

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Alex Jevan

Thank you for sharing this great list for next level upcoming framework.

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Silvia O'Dwyer • Edited

Appreciate it, thanks for reading, Alex! 🙌

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Ravindra Kumar

Awesome , Very Helpfull ........😍

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Silvia O'Dwyer

Thanks for reading, Ravindra! Appreciate it 🙌

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Toe Wai Lin

Good. Very helpful.

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Peter W

The website link for Starlight appears to be incorrect, and sent me to the docfx docs.

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Silvia O'Dwyer

Whoops, thanks for pointing that out Peter! I was planning to add DocFX as well, and the link sneaked its way in haha
I just updated the article with the correct link for Starlight ✅