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Re: Ask HN: Which are your favorite developer docs?

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Invaluable: https://devdocs.io/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

This is a really awesome project, and I really appreciate how pleasant the interface is. Wonder what it would take to parse in existing man files? It works great for all those front-end frameworks, but Linux Man Pages /are/ the most voted request, and several other suggestions provide standard formats.

Comment on the Linux Man Page request frequently focus on where to get HTML versions, or where to source the files from.

I think the answer is to parse the man pages into HTML (maybe with Pandoc) with the existing CSS/JS, not scrape existing man page web front-ends (of which this would qualify). A swath of docs could be imported by creating such an importer and collecting the "doc" outputs from functional package repositories like Guix and Nix, which tend to stick very closely to upstream; any modifications are rare, explicit, and easily removed.

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