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Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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Post by guessmyname »

latkin wrote: post #82

Looks nice, but seems to be mostly focused on web dev. No Scala, Java, .NET/C#/F#/Powershell, Win32, Azure... Would be great to have JVM and/or Msft ecosystem in there.

The webapp includes a copy of the documentation for Rust, Go, Nim, Lua, Julia, Haxe, Tensorflow, Numpy, among many other technologies. If you consider these "web dev" then label me crazy because I see these as system programming languages and/or data science libraries more than anything else. The lack of Scala, C#, etc is due to the complexity of the documentation which cannot be downloaded so easily as the others, or the license of the documentation itself. Feel free to contribute through their repository [1]

Java is under the JDK section by the way.

[1] https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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Post by guessmyname »

raresp wrote: post #22

This was first posted 1500 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=devdocs.io It seems that this time it got more traction. Good luck with your project!

DevDocs is old, roughly 4 years or so; I know it from the beginning.

That being said, not every HackerNews reader is aware of every single project in the wild, so re-posting the link from time to time is a good idea, not only to let more people know about it but also to increase the contributions and donations which may be forgotten after the popularity fades away. I can see this re-posted many more times in the future.

Remember that every year new Computer Science students graduate and and they are going to be the ones saying "First time I see this project" next year. So let the re-posts flow no matter what.

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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Post by guessmyname »

mads wrote: post #68

Nice.. I didn't know about this. Some people here seem to recommend it and they have been using it a lot apparently. Where did you learn about it? Is there a community our there I am missing out on?

DevDocs is old, roughly 4 years or so; I know it from the beginning.

That being said, not every HackerNews reader is aware of every single project in the wild, so re-posting the link from time to time is a good idea, not only to let more people know about it but also to increase the contributions and donations which may be forgotten after the popularity fades away. I can see this re-posted many more times in the future.

Remember that every year new Computer Science students graduate and and they are going to be the ones saying "First time I see this project" next year. So let the re-posts flow no matter what.

To answer your question, there is no extracurricular community, it's just people like you and me who one day know the project, and next year decide to post it again so the new university graduates can learn about it, that's it.

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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Post by komali2 »

dccoolgai wrote: post #48
styfle wrote: post #42

For some reason, the theme/colors were a bit of a shock to my eyes. I can't explain why...maybe because it was my first time seeing it. Compare these two pages: https://devdocs.io/javascript/global_objects/array/entries https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... I think the blue "sections" on devdocs are really so they are not sections at all and it throws me off.

Devdocs has an option for dark thene I use

Oh my god lol, I can't believe I never saw this. Thank you.

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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Post by emilioolivares »

I was curious to see how it was able to run so snappy. It actually feels like the help section for a native app. I found the source code: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs It's not really using a client side framework and runs Sinatra on the back end. I will definitely dig more into how it all works.

Thanks for sharing!!

Re: DevDocs API Documentation

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Post by semanticfact »

marceldegraaf wrote: post #10

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.
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