nellh / docz

✍ It has never been so easy to document your things!

Docz makes it easy to write and publish beautiful interactive documentation for your code.

Create MDX files showcasing your code and Docz turns them into a live-reloading, production-ready site.

Why?

Documenting code is one of the most important and time-consuming tasks when developing software.

A lot of time is spent on building and maintaining custom documentation sites.

Docz enables you to quickly create a live-reloading, SEO-friendly, production-ready documentation site with MDX and customize the look, feel and behavior when required by leveraging GatsbyJS and Gatsby theme shadowing.

About create-docz-app

There's a create-docz-app, which you can use to start new projects with docz even faster. This app is developed independently of the docz project, and is not officially supported. So use the app at your own risk. You can use create-docz-app as a replacement for create-react-app, when you're creating a new project.

Getting started

Start by adding docz as a dependency to your project with Yarn or npm:

$ yarn add docz # react react-dom

# or

$ npm install docz # react react-dom

Note: react and react-dom will not be installed automatically. You'll have to install them yourself.

Then, create .mdx files anywhere in your project:

---
name: Button
route: /
---

import { Playground, Props } from 'docz'
import Button from './Button'

# Button

<Props of={Button} />

## Basic usage

<Playground>
  <Button type="submit">Click me</Button>
  <Button>No, click me</Button>
</Playground>

And a Button component Button.jsx:

import React from 'react'
import t from 'prop-types'

const Button = ({ children, type }) => <button type={type}>{children}</button>

Button.propTypes = {
  /**
   * This is a description for this prop.
   * Button type.
   */
  type: t.oneOf(['button', 'submit', 'reset']),
}
Button.defaultProps = {
  type: 'button',
}
export default Button

Finally, run:

yarn docz dev

This starts a local development server and opens your documentation site in the browser.

Build

yarn docz build generates a static site in .docz/dist/.

Try it with yarn docz serve or by serving the generated site with your favorite static file server (e.g. npx serve .docz/dist).

You can have yarn docz build emit to a different directory by providing a path to the dest field in your doczrc.js or from the command line: yarn docz build --dest docs-site-directory.

Deploying

The output of docz consists of static assets only. This allows you to deploy your generated docz site with any static site hosting provider you'd like.

Start by building your site with yarn docz build, if you haven't provided a dest flag to your config then you will find your generated files in .docz/dist to copy to the server.

Examples

• with basic
• with a gatsby site
• with react native
• with styled-components
• with typescript
• with algolia search
• with gatsby-remark-vscode
• with react-router
• with flow
• with images
• with sass
• with less
• with stylus
• with css modules: works out of the box.

You can check the complete list of docz examples here.

More info on docz.site

Used by

• Welcome UI: Customizable design system with react • styled-components • styled-system and reakit.
• React Hooks Testing Library: 🐏 Simple and complete React hooks testing utilities that encourage good testing practices.
• Mobx React: mobx-react documentation site.
• React Google Charts: A thin, typed, React wrapper over Google Charts Visualization and Charts API.
• Entur: Entur operates the national registry for all public transport in Norway.
• FAB Specification: 💎 FABs are a compile target for frontend applications.
• @umijs/hooks: React Hooks Library.
• React Yandex Maps: Yandex Maps API bindings for React.
• Components-extra: Customizable react component blocks built with material-ui and styled-components.
• Add your site

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [Contribute].

Contributing

All kinds of contributions are very welcome and appreciated!

If you want to contribute time to docz then here's a list of suggestions to get you started:

1. Star the project on GitHub.
2. Help people in the issues by sharing your knowledge and experience.
3. Find and report issues.
4. Submit pull requests to help solve issues or add features.
5. Influence the future of docz with feature requests.

If you're looking for a place to start make sure to check issues tagged with the good first issue label:

Read the Contributing Guide before you open a pull request.

You can also sponsor us via OpenCollective to help secure docz's future.