Just the Docs
Worth it
Confidence: High
Buy it if your team writes Markdown and is comfortable running Jekyll on GitHub Pages . it's free, flexible, and proven at major-company scale.
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Comparison
Just the Docs vs MkDocs Material
MkDocs Material
Starting report…
Pick Just the Docs when
- Developer and open-source docs
- Markdown-first teams on GitHub
- Internal policy and security pages
- Zero-budget documentation sites
When Just the Docs is not a fit
- Non-technical teams . no Ruby/Jekyll skills, no site
- Anyone wanting hosted docs with WYSIWYG editing
- Teams needing vendor support SLAs or contracts
- Guess: API-reference-heavy projects needing auto-generated docs
Sources
- Just the Docs (GitHub)github.comofficial
- Just the Docs home pagejust-the-docs.comofficial
- One-click GitHub Pages templategithub.comofficial
- Just the Docs sponsors pagegithub.comofficial
- Just the Docs on OpenCollectiveopencollective.comofficial
- Just the Docs . free and open sourcetemplate0.comreview
- Just the Docs on Jekyll Themesjekyllthemes.ioreview
- Read the Docs vs just-the-docslibhunt.comreview
- Reddit r/Jekyll customization helpreddit.comreview
- Stack Overflow implementation troublestackoverflow.comreview
- Jekyll talk build error threadtalk.jekyllrb.comreview
- Migration and upgrading guidejust-the-docs.comofficial
- Product security pagejust-the-docs.comsecurity
- Socket package security analysissocket.devsecurity