What is MkDocs?
MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file.
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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about MkDocs, and it has gotten 14 likes
- Developed by Tom Christie
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 3.5
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So powerful while being simple, open, extensible and based on markdown.
Perfect online-wiki tool. Support all features that I can only wish as extensions.
Clunky documentation tool, supports the very old original markdown syntax not CommonMark (best) or GFM (okish). So writting doc is a nightmare as you don't have autolink without a plugin, you need to have exactly 4 spaces for lists (2 doesn't work) no table support, etc.
Also the dependencies are often breaking while installing, and the maintainer is stuborn and doesn't want any new features.
[Edited by alexandrezanni, September 01]
I would advice a tool I wrote, NextBook for you, literally one-click deployment. http://next-book.vercel.app/
Reply written 9 months ago
Yay I tried it and it's a lot better.
Reply written 7 months ago
I like mkdocs because its so easy to set up. However, if you're planning to use versioning — you'll have quite a bit of trouble as there is no native support for it and the extensions available are still in the 'workaround' state