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Re: DevDocs API Documentation

#121

For PHP it's missing the comments at the bottom, which are often essential to understand certain strange behaviours.

I almost always end up scrolling straight to that section in the PHP docs when looking for help. Such is PHP.

Ditto, and I don't even mean it in a bad sense. After you get used to it, this really isn't that bad, this format seems to work for PHP. I'd even say, that because of that PHP docs turn out to be quite better than "clean and nicely written" ones for other platforms.

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

#122

I've used this off and on for a while, but the hardest thing for me is breaking the google habbit (or ddg as often as not in my case) and actually performing the search on that site. I can !dd with duckduckgo to get to devdocs, but I wish there was some natural language processing that knew I wanted to look up a cpp/rust what have you term and send me there. Additionally, C# doesn't seem to be included, which is a bi…

According to the docs (http://devdocs.io/help#search) you can actually integrate DevDocs into your search habits by using the browser bar search (on Google Chrome, at least).

Go to search bar -> type in 'devdocs' -> hit tab ("Search DevDocs"). You can then search directly.

It's pretty awesome.

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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post #27

Reminds me of Dash[1] which is especially useful when configured in your editor: press a key to open documentation for the word under the cursor. 1: https://kapeli.com/dash

If you live inside emacs, https://github.com/areina/helm-dash/ will use dash documentation and use emacs for the search and display of the docs. Also, works on GNU/Linux and Windows. Also, free software. Also, I'm the co-author.

I saw this a while back and it seemed amazing but I was wondering if there's any way to open the actual live documentation page. So for example if you choose the documentation for `Array.prototype.map` then it'll pull up that page on MDN, rather than the locally cached Dash page.

I know the whole point of Dash is to have locally cached, offline documentation copies, but I was thinking it would be amazing to use that to feed Helm candidates, but actually open the real, live documentation page.

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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post #11

Something similar which I really love for terminal is tldr : https://tldr.sh/ Behaves like a substitute for man pages with most useful examples. Saved me hours of googling and searching.

http://cheat.sh is a similar tool which I use a lot

Well dang, there's a new favourite

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

#125

Reminds me of Dash[1] which is especially useful when configured in your editor: press a key to open documentation for the word under the cursor. 1: https://kapeli.com/dash

I found it slow. Also, just remembering this now but I came in to work one morning only to be questioned as to why I was downloading GBs of data while I was out of the office. I guess Dash was refreshing the local copy of all the docs every night. Uninstalled it right away.

Slow? It's insanely fast on my 6 year old desktop and doesn't download "gigs" of docs every night...also, what kind of workplace monitors individuals net usage then gets upset at them for downloading "gigs" when their job is to program.

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

#127

I can't recommend devdocs.io enough! It's such a fantastic resource. * It links to the real documentation * world class search * lets you pick and choose versions and languages/frameworks you want to have searchable * provides a consistent UI across all docs which is fantastic when you are switching between several while developing. * Is updated with terrifying frequency (I don't think I've ever opened it and NOT had…

Only receiving $16/week when all these Hacker News are pulling in 6 figures.

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

#128

This looks awesome - is there a way to get an offline version of this?

DevDocs works offline — http://devdocs.io/offline — on mobile, and can be installed on Chrome. There is an Electron app here — https://github.com/egoist/devdocs-desktop

There's also https://github.com/ragingwind/devdogs. Same idea.
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