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Want to create attractive, interactive docs? Use these amazing documentation tools and examples

Rob OLeary on December 02, 2022

Technical documentation has a bad reputation. Too often technical docs and blog posts are dry, linear, and static. They read more like an instructi...
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Kamran Ayub

These are going on awesome-deved, thanks @robole ! These have umami!

github.com/kamranayub/awesome-deved

And I totally agree, visual storytelling, narrative, and interaction are all things that can be brought to docs and "articles" 🙌

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Rob OLeary

Umami! 😃 Thanks Kamran!

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David Richards

Very useful article. Revealed some tools that I was unaware of.

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Nicolas Fränkel

Very interesting post, good job!

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Rob OLeary

Thanks Nicolas 🙂

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Snorre Aas

Great post!

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Rob OLeary

Thanks Snorre 🙂

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Johannes Dienst

This is gold!

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Rob OLeary

🙂 Thanks Johannes!

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Pratik sharma

Thanks, this is such a great article. I have always wanted to make an Interactive blog.

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Rob OLeary • Edited

Thanks Pratik 🙂 I hope that this will inspire you to go for it!

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Rob OLeary • Edited

machine processing data and spitting out documents

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Liviu Lupei

Or just use Docusaurus, it's oPeN sOuRcE.

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Rob OLeary • Edited

Docusaurus builds a SPA and is based on React. Not everyone would want this for their documentation.

All the tools I mentioned are open source.