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Stars 3,233

Watchers 155

Forks 759

Last Commit 6 days ago

Code Quality Rank: L2

Programming language: C#

License: MIT License

Tags: Documentation

Latest version: v2.56.5

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README

Generate your documentation with DocFX

DocFX makes it extremely easy to generate your developer hub with a landing page, API reference, and conceptual documentation, from a variety of sources.

Quickstart

Install DocFX and deploy a sample documentation web site:

Open a console.
Enter the following commands to install DocFX and build/deploy a sample site:

   choco install docfx
   docfx init -q
   docfx docfx_project\docfx.json --serve

Go to https://localhost:8080 to view the sample DocFX site.

For more information, refer to Getting Started.

DocFX project

Build the DocFX solution

To build the DocFX binaries from the Visual Studio solution:

Install Visual Studio 2019 with .NET Core cross-platform development toolset
Install Node.js
Build the solution using one of the following options:

Option 1: Console
- Open a DOS console and navigate to your DocFX clone subdirectory.
- Run build.cmd.
Option 2: Visual Studio
- Open a PowerShell console and navigate to your DocFX clone subdirectory.
- Run ./UpdateTemplate.ps1 to generate the template files required by the Visual Studio solution.
- Open the docfx.sln solution in your DocFX clone subdirectory from Visual Studio and build it.

Build Status

dev is the default branch accepting Pull Requests. It releases a package daily. main branch is the release branch.

main	dev

Install packages

Chocolatey	Nuget

Running Status

Windows with VS2017	Ubuntu Linux with Mono

How to Contribute

For new comers, you can start with issues with help-wanted. Check out the [contributing](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) page to see the best places to log issues and start discussions.

This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.

License

DocFX is licensed under the [MIT license](LICENSE).

DocFX is supported by the .NET Foundation.

*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the DocFX README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.

DocFX

Static site generator for .NET API documentation.