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Beyond Code: How to Create Beautiful Documentation That Developers Actually Love (Best Practices)

Emmanuel Mumba on May 02, 2025

In the world of software development, documentation often feels like an afterthought – a chore relegated to the end of a sprint, or worse, skipped ...
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jeffdev03

Such a nice read! I learned so much about best practices of API Documentation. THank you Emmanuel Mumba!

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Emmanuel Mumba

Thank you. Glad I could Help

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yubiki_dev

Good read!

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Emmanuel Mumba

Awesome! Thank you.

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Francesca Petracci

That's a goo done, Emmanuel!

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Brian Bird • Edited

Great article! One question: What is a good way to add search to my documentation? I write my docs in markdown and export the markdown to HTML. The docs are in a GitHub respiratory with the Web site feature turned on.

I've used Lunr to add search, but am not thrilled with the way it works. It doesn't highlight the search keywords in the documents it finds, nor have I found a way for it to open an internal link in a document.

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Deividas Strole

Software documentation should explain not really what that peace of code does, but why. AI code documentation tools are not god at this yet.

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Samma Anderson

Very insightful. Thx!

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Mutaborax

Wow cool. Good job.

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Lepe

Senseless AI-generated content. Sad.

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PHANI KUMAR KOLLA

Thank you Good read