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Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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Thanks! Your donation is very much appreciated. Don't feel like you have to donate, though. The app is cheap to host (one of the benefits of an offline-enabled, no-accounts-required, optimized-to-the-max web app is that the backend doesn't do much :P), and I'm lucky that MaxCDN & others are providing free service to the app. What keeps me going is seeing the impact that DevDocs is having (people using and liking it).…

Could you specify more on the front-end code on this project, did you hand-roll your own javascript front-end or did you use a framework? The whole thing is rather impressive and I'm looking to do something similar to your sidebar with my own project. Is all of your open source code open to be re-used/modified?

Thanks! The front-end doesn't use any JavaScript framework. See the code here: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs.

All of the code is licensed under MPL 2.0 [1], so you're welcome to reuse/modify it in your own projects.

[1]: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/blob/master/LICENSE

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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Thanks! Your donation is very much appreciated. Don't feel like you have to donate, though. The app is cheap to host (one of the benefits of an offline-enabled, no-accounts-required, optimized-to-the-max web app is that the backend doesn't do much :P), and I'm lucky that MaxCDN & others are providing free service to the app. What keeps me going is seeing the impact that DevDocs is having (people using and liking it).…

Can you elaborate a bit about your implementation? I'd love to learn more about the techniques you have used.

I elaborated a little bit in the past here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/devdocs/T9_FsjB1kHw

I've been thinking about writing blog posts on DevDocs's internals and the techniques it uses for a while, but it's hard to find the time, especially when I already spend a lot of my spare time maintaining/updating the app.

That said, feel free to open a GitHub issue to remind me to write blog posts at some point (if there is interest), or if you have specific questions.

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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What? That link doesn't have any proof that "the Dash author has engaged in unethical practices". Neither any other link I could find about the whole controversy. Actually, everyone seems to be saying things are complicated, what seemed to be true actually wasn't, it's hard to take sides, etc: https://daringfireball.net/2016/10/apple_dash_controversy

Gruber makes it pretty clear in your link that the author of Dash engaged in unethical practices, just not with the Dash app (or the account used to publish Dash). Heck, publishing the phone call alone is unethical, regardless of any of the alleged app review behavior.

Well, what is clear to me is that another account, not Dash's author's, engaged in unethical practices. The author said it was a family member, but I can't verify that, so it is still unclear.

Publishing the phone call was kinda dumb, yeah, but it's still pretty far from "engaging in unethical practices". It seems more like a guy feeling cornered, acting under pressure and making bad decisions.

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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I really wish I could integrate this into macOS' spotlight

Spoke too soon. There is a way via Flashlight --> https://github.com/w0lfschild/Flashlight But there is a problem with the dependency mySIMBL and High Sierra --> https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL/issues/62

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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Due to some very annoying behaviour of gratipay (the donation service devdocs uses) I have donated over $100 to them last year of the course of a few months. Not what I wanted to donate, but then again there aren't many websites that I use more often in my day to day work. So I am not too bummed about it. Great work guys!

Thanks! Your donation is very much appreciated. Don't feel like you have to donate, though. The app is cheap to host (one of the benefits of an offline-enabled, no-accounts-required, optimized-to-the-max web app is that the backend doesn't do much :P), and I'm lucky that MaxCDN & others are providing free service to the app. What keeps me going is seeing the impact that DevDocs is having (people using and liking it).…

One of the greatest in-kind sponsorships MaxCDN did for sure. Really happy to see you're still at it after all these years Thibaut!

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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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

The Dash author engaged in unethical practices and then attacked Apple when they closed his account. http://www.loopinsight.com/2016/10/10/apple-responds-to-dash...

This a most irresponsible post. The situation was somewhat complex and not easy for outsiders to parse out of the crossfire. You state one side's position as fact, quoting only one highly tendentious Gruberish Apple protagonist in support. Is this how fairly you'd like to be treated in public if you got into a spat with a major company? Please have a little thought for the welfare of others before you type.

In any case, it's water long under the bridge now, and Dash is an excellent app used my many developers (including within Apple). Trying to poison the well is in pretty bad taste.

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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Thanks! Your donation is very much appreciated. Don't feel like you have to donate, though. The app is cheap to host (one of the benefits of an offline-enabled, no-accounts-required, optimized-to-the-max web app is that the backend doesn't do much :P), and I'm lucky that MaxCDN & others are providing free service to the app. What keeps me going is seeing the impact that DevDocs is having (people using and liking it).…

One of the greatest in-kind sponsorships MaxCDN did for sure. Really happy to see you're still at it after all these years Thibaut!

It happened thanks to you :) And you/MaxCDN also played a part in getting the app open-sourced sooner rather than later.

Happy our paths crossed again here!

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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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…

I don't think there's any reason to use this for Rust, honestly. You'll want to unify your dependencies using `cargo doc` and then just browse std documentation on https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ (and other stuff on docs.rs)

Rust has spoiled me so bad with cargo doc. Even Python feels like a fossil when I can generate a linked doctree in my target directory and use it offline / on demand and generate them immediately and effortlessly if I ever need to fork / patch / use git / etc anything.
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