MDN because it's exhaustive https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ Jekyll because it's beautiful and the user can read all the pages at once with the previous/next buttons (at the bottom) https://jekyllrb.com/docs/home/ Node.js because they propose a single page version and it makes search easier https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v10.x/docs/api/all.html
Ask HN: What's the best documentation you've ever read?
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#52Vue JS docs are the best. I don't think anything beats it :)
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#53Go
Really? I thought they were horrible. I gave up on learning the language mainly because of the documentation.
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#56Any discussion on documentation is incomplete without mentioning Django https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/
Came here to say this. The thing I love about Django’s documentation is the layering. From beginner tutorial through to high level overviews of the subsystems, through to detailed usage for the subsystems, through to API level docs, through to the source code - all of it is there, and all linked together well. On top of that, it’s all well written, approachable, full of notes and caveats/warnings where necessary (for…
While the learning curve seemed to go on and on, the documentation had a half-tutorial, half-specification answer for everything.