Top Documentation repositories

Repositories with the GitHub topic “documentation”: 56 repositories with 1.5M stars between them, mostly written in TypeScript, Python and JavaScript. The highest-rated is DigitalPlatDev/FreeDomain, #139 on the bestofgithub Elo ladder.

Biggest movers this week

repowise-dev/repowise

Open on GitHubPython

Codebase intelligence for AI and humans: code health scores, auto-generated docs, git analytics, dead code detection, and architectural decisions via MCP.

  • 1,631+16 Elo, change today
  • 8.1k stars
  • 1k forks
git
git clone https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise.git
  • ai
  • code-complexity
  • code-health
  • code-intelligence

withastro/starlight

Open on GitHubTypeScript

🌟 Build beautiful, accessible, high-performance documentation websites with Astro

  • 1,600+9 Elo, change today
  • 9.5k stars
  • 1k forks
git
git clone https://github.com/withastro/starlight.git
  • astro
  • docs-generator
  • documentation
  • starlight

iamgio/quarkdown

Open on GitHubKotlin

🪐 Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.

  • 1,557±0 Elo, change today
  • 16.3k stars
  • 525 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown.git
  • compiler
  • documentation
  • knowledge-management
  • markdown

sphinx-doc/sphinx

Open on GitHubPython

The Sphinx documentation generator

  • 1,486+19 Elo, change today
  • 8k stars
  • 2.6k forks
git
git clone https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx.git
  • docs
  • documentation
  • documentation-tool
  • markdown

chaitin/PandaWiki

Open on GitHubTypeScript

PandaWiki 是一款 AI 大模型驱动的开源知识库搭建系统,帮助你快速构建智能化的 产品文档、技术文档、FAQ、博客系统,借助大模型的力量为你提供 AI 创作、AI 问答、AI 搜索等能力。

  • 1,555−8 Elo, change today
  • 10.5k stars
  • 1k forks
git
git clone https://github.com/chaitin/PandaWiki.git
  • ai
  • docs
  • document
  • documentation

Top 56 on the Elo ladder

  1. #139
    DigitalPlatDev/FreeDomain

    Free domain registration and practical DNS learning resources for everyone.

    2,182 Elo −26208kMarkdown
  2. #205
    AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy

    Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more…

    2,125 Elo +478.9kDart
  3. #554
    storybookjs/storybook

    Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation

    1,956 Elo −1491.5kTypeScript
  4. #558
    mermaid-js/mermaid

    Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown

    1,955 Elo −3191.1kTypeScript
  5. #606
    jlevy/the-art-of-command-line

    Master the command line, in one page

    1,939 Elo −83162k
  6. #730
    meta/docusaurus

    Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.

    1,910 Elo −1066.7kTypeScript
  7. #919
    tldr-pages/tldr

    Collaborative cheatsheets for console commands 📚.

    1,872 Elo −6064.2kMarkdown
  8. #1,046
    requarks/wiki

    Wiki.js | Next Generation Open Source Wiki

    1,848 Elo −5029.2kTypeScript
  9. #1,454
    home-assistant/home-assistant.io

    :blue_book: Home Assistant User documentation

    1,790 Elo +2310.1kHTML
  10. #1,464
    docmost/docmost

    Docmost is an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence…

    1,789 Elo +322.3kTypeScript
  11. #1,700
    freeCodeCamp/devdocs

    API Documentation Browser

    1,761 Elo −839.6kRuby
  12. #1,938
    github/opensource.guide

    📚 Community guides for open source creators

    1,734 Elo −2715.8kHTML
  13. #1,983
    charlax/professional-programming

    A collection of learning resources for curious software engineers

    1,729 Elo −3851.6kPython
  14. #2,123
    architecture-decision-record/architecture-decision-record

    Architecture decision record (ADR) examples for software planning, IT leadership, and template documentation

    1,714 Elo −2117.4kCSS
  15. #2,161
    docsifyjs/docsify

    🃏 A magical documentation site generator.

    1,710 Elo −1731.5kJavaScript
  16. #2,232
    GitbookIO/gitbook

    The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites

    1,702 Elo −6629.1kTypeScript
  17. #2,426
    squidfunk/mkdocs-material

    Documentation that simply works

    1,683 Elo −5327.6kPython
  18. #2,764
    chubin/cheat.sh

    the only cheat sheet you need

    1,655 Elo −4041.8kPython
  19. #2,772
    mdn/content

    The official source for MDN Web Docs content. Home to over 14,000 pages of documentation about HTML, CSS, JS, HTTP, Web…

    1,654 Elo −4111.1kMarkdown
  20. #2,912
    yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers

    Convert documentation websites, GitHub repositories, and PDFs into Claude AI skills with automatic conflict detection

    1,644 Elo −1015.3kPython
  21. #2,925
    mkdocs/mkdocs

    Project documentation with Markdown.

    1,643 Elo −1122.5kPython
  22. #3,075
    repowise-dev/repowise

    Codebase intelligence for AI and humans: code health scores, auto-generated docs, git analytics, dead code detection…

    1,631 Elo +838.1kPython
  23. #3,208
    satwikkansal/wtfpython

    What the f*ck Python? 😱

    1,623 Elo −5037.1kPython
  24. #3,267
    BookStackApp/BookStack

    NOW MANAGED ON CODEBERG

    1,619 Elo −3819.1kPHP
  25. #3,571
    withastro/starlight

    🌟 Build beautiful, accessible, high-performance documentation websites with Astro

    1,600 Elo +739.5kTypeScript
  26. #4,201
    sparanoid/chinese-copywriting-guidelines

    Chinese copywriting guidelines for better written communication/中文文案排版指北

    1,562 Elo −2815.8k
  27. #4,204
    reactjs/react.dev

    The React documentation website

    1,562 Elo −4911.8kJavaScript
  28. #4,247
    selierlin/Share-SSR-V2ray

    机场推荐、Clash / V2ray 客户端配置与代理工具指南

    1,559 Elo +312.7kPython
  29. #4,289
    iamgio/quarkdown

    🪐 Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.

    1,557 Elo +5816.3kKotlin
  30. #4,331
    chaitin/PandaWiki

    PandaWiki 是一款 AI 大模型驱动的开源知识库搭建系统,帮助你快速构建智能化的 产品文档、技术文档、FAQ、博客系统,借助大模型的力量为你提供 AI 创作、AI 问答、AI 搜索等能力。

    1,555 Elo +1810.5kTypeScript
  31. #4,373
    suitenumerique/docs

    Docs is an open-source text editor: web-native, made for real-time collaboration, cleanly structured documents and…

    1,552 Elo +1116.9kTypeScript
  32. #4,496
    shimohq/chinese-programmer-wrong-pronunciation

    中国程序员容易发音错误的单词

    1,546 Elo −7423.3kJavaScript
  33. #5,013
    pedronauck/docz

    ✍ It has never been so easy to document your things!

    1,519 Elo −5023.5kTypeScript
  34. #5,244
    gollum/gollum

    A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content.

    1,508 Elo −1414.3kRuby
  35. #5,293
    just-the-docs/just-the-docs

    A modern, high customizable, responsive Jekyll theme for documentation with built-in search.

    1,506 Elo −169.2kSCSS
  36. #5,295
    nhn/tui.editor

    🍞📝 Markdown WYSIWYG Editor. GFM Standard + Chart & UML Extensible.

    1,506 Elo −4617.9kTypeScript
  37. #5,397
    zealdocs/zeal

    Offline documentation browser. Your personal reference library, searchable in an instant.

    1,501 Elo −112.8kC++
  38. #5,402
    awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples

    Welcome to the AWS Code Examples Repository. This repo contains code examples used in the AWS documentation, AWS SDK…

    1,501 Elo −2710.4kJava
  39. #5,526
    pandao/editor.md

    The open source embeddable online markdown editor (component).

    1,495 Elo −3514.3kJavaScript
  40. #5,741
    sphinx-doc/sphinx

    The Sphinx documentation generator

    1,486 Elo +248kPython
  41. #5,821
    jsdoc/jsdoc

    An API documentation generator for JavaScript.

    1,482 Elo −2515.4kJavaScript
  42. #6,056
    cheat/cheat

    cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix…

    1,471 Elo −1613.4kGo
  43. #6,141
    SimulatedGREG/electron-vue

    An Electron & Vue.js quick start boilerplate with vue-cli scaffolding, common Vue plugins…

    1,467 Elo −3815.3kJavaScript
  44. #6,962
    1,435 Elo +48.2kC#
  45. #7,179
    styleguidist/react-styleguidist

    Isolated React component development environment with a living style guide

    1,426 Elo −3211kTypeScript
  46. #7,346
    sysprog21/lkmpg

    The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (updated for 5.0+ kernels)

    1,420 Elo +108.6kTeX
  47. #7,485
    tensorflow/docs

    TensorFlow documentation

    1,414 Elo −226.3kJupyter Notebook
  48. #7,709
    matheusfelipeog/beautiful-docs

    Pointers to useful, well-written, and otherwise beautiful documentation.

    1,406 Elo +119.5k
  49. #8,131
    RichardLitt/standard-readme

    A standard style for README files

    1,390 Elo −216.3kJavaScript
  50. #8,219
    TypeStrong/typedoc

    Documentation generator for TypeScript projects.

    1,387 Elo +98.4kTypeScript
  51. #8,263
    ConsenSysDiligence/smart-contract-best-practices

    A guide to smart contract security best practices

    1,385 Elo −57.5kHTML
  52. #8,960
    teivah/100-go-mistakes

    📖 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

    1,352 Elo +37.9kGo
  53. #9,064
    markdoc/markdoc

    A powerful, flexible, Markdown-based authoring framework.

    1,346 Elo +68.5kTypeScript
  54. #9,223
    Kapeli/Dash-iOS

    Dash for iOS was discontinued. Please check out Dash for macOS instead.

    1,337 Elo −57kObjective-C
  55. #9,609
    ROCm/legacy-rocm-build

    AMD ROCm™ Software - GitHub Home

    1,305 Elo −36.8kShell
  56. #9,657
    nayafia/lemonade-stand

    A handy guide to financial support for open source

    1,299 Elo −97.7k