Hi Product Hunt! I was the lead maintainer of Docusaurus from 2018-2020. The first version of Docusaurus was great, it enabled us to build documentation websites very easily by handling everything besides the content for us. However, as the web advanced, users started to ask for more features: adding interactivity, theming, using their React components, etc on the page. Docusaurus 1 was built as a monolith and was fundamentally creating websites with a different architecture. To address the shortcomings of Docusaurus 1, in 2018, we started rearchitecting Docusaurus 2 from the ground up and split V2 into a few core modules:
- Infima: a CSS framework written from scratch that helps people build content-driven websites quickly (https://infima.dev/)
- Docusaurus core: allows for plugins, themes and page generation
- Docusaurus classic preset: a collection of plugins and themes which reimplemented the functionality of Docusaurus 1 for a "works out-of-the-box" experience!
It's very extensible and themeable. It has been a multi-year effort and we're glad we're finally shipping it. Check it out!
I've been using Docusaurus for an open-source project I'm maintaining ( Gladys Assistant: https://gladysassistant.com/) since the alpha of this v2 and it saved me tons of time.
Docusaurus is an amazing piece of tech, well maintained and easy to use!
We've used the v2 beta for our internal documentation site at BlackBox Vision and it's been really helpful & nice to work with!
You should be testing it, for us it has made building a documentation site a pretty simple task!
Huge fans of Docusaurus over at Ionic. We've adopted it for all of our docs moving forward. It replaces a ton of custom work we've had to build and maintain over the years and now all our docs are fast and easy to contribute to.
@maxlynch thanks a lot Max. Really happy to see your Ionic site, it's a been a good example I use to demonstrate the value of Docusaurus
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I've been using this to power my engineering blog back since it was in alpha. As alpha software it was more dependable than many products that have been live for years. It looks great, it's simple to use, it has great DX. Strong recommend
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