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Projects with Great Documentation

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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Daniel Kantor
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Nick Taylor

Awesome!

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Lakshya Singh

Python is ❀

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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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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!

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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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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! đŸ‘đŸ»

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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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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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Rafi
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Nick Taylor

Now you’re making us blush. 😊

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Nick Taylor

Now docs.Forem.com 😎