docsify

A magical documentation site generator.

Docsify turns one or more Markdown files into a Website, with no build process required.

Features

• No statically built HTML files
• Simple and lightweight
• Smart full-text search plugin
• Multiple themes
• Useful plugin API
• Emoji support

Quick Start

Get going fast by using a static web server or GitHub Pages with this ready-to-use Docsify Template, review the quick start tutorial or jump right into a CodeSandbox example site with the button below.

Showcase

A large collection of showcase projects are included in awesome-docsify.

Links

• Documentation
• Docsify CLI (Command Line Interface)
• CDN: UNPKG | jsDelivr | cdnjs
• develop branch preview
• Awesome docsify
• Community chat

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Backers

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Sponsors

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Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. [Contribute].

License

MIT

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Summary

No-build client-side docs generator (31.5k stars, JS): the browser fetches raw Markdown and renders at runtime (Vue) — no pipeline, no static HTML. Host-anywhere (any static file server, even without SSG tooling); trade: no SEO without prerender, slower first paint. Alive (pushed 2026-09).

Learnings

• The maximalist ‘docs ARE the repo’ pole: zero build means zero staleness between repo and site — the same content-as-source-of-truth instinct as the garden, pushed to the runtime extreme. The user’s remembered ‘Vue client-side markdown’ — confirmed alive.

Gotchas

• (none yet)

Hands-on

(not adopted; conceptual pole)