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Docsify.js

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docsify generates your documentation website on the fly. Unlike GitBook, it does not generate static html files. Instead, it smartly loads and parses your Markdown files and displays them as website. All you need to do is create an index.

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  • Free • Open Source

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  • Self-Hosted
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  1.  Support for MarkDown
  2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  3.  Client-side
  4.  Static Site Generator

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  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.

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  • Rating

    Average rating of 5

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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  •  5,733 Forks
  •  182 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 12, 2025 
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Docsify.js, and it has gotten 15 likes

Docsify.js was added to AlternativeTo by Alexandre ZANNI on Aug 6, 2018 and this page was last updated Jan 3, 2023.

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Alexandre ZANNI
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May 4, 2020
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100% static, no generation needed, the JS dynamically render the Markdown in the browser, so you can host it with Gitlab pages (or github pages) without even needing to configure a CI.

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Aug 25, 2022
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Amazingly simple to use and (of course) very well documented !

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Nov 12, 2021
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clean, javascript based, lightweight and soo many plugins

What is Docsify.js?

docsify generates your documentation website on the fly. Unlike GitBook, it does not generate static html files. Instead, it smartly loads and parses your Markdown files and displays them as website. All you need to do is create an index.html to start and deploy it on GitHub Pages.

See the Quick start for more details. Features

  • No statically built html files
  • Simple and lightweight (~19kB gzipped)
  • Smart full-text search plugin
  • Multiple themes
  • Useful plugin API
  • Emoji support
  • Compatible with IE10+
  • Support SSR (example)

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