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    Doxygen
    Doxygen is a JavaDoc like documentation system for C++, C, Java and IDL.
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    plantuml
    PlantUml allows to quickly create some UML diagram using a simple textual description language.
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    Downloads: 5,539 This Week
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    TestLink

    TestLink

    Test & requirements management

    TestLink is a web based Test Management tool. The application provides Test specification, Test plans and execution, Reporting, Requirements specification and collaborate with well-known bug trackers. Repository: https://github.com/TestLinkOpenSourceTRMS
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    Downloads: 624 This Week
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    mermaid

    Diagram and flowchart generation from text similar to markdown

    mermaid is a JavaScript-based diagram and flowchart generating tool that uses markdown-inspired text for fast and easy generation of diagrams and charts. Forget about using heavy tools to explain your code. mermaid greatly simplifies documentation with its simple markdown-like script language, and offers a great range of diagram and chart options. The latest version of mermaid comes with a number of bug fixes and enhancements, as well as a new diagram type, entity relationship diagrams. Its range of available diagrams include flowcharts, sequence diagrams, gantt diagrams and more, with new ones continuously being developed.
    Downloads: 60 This Week
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    Joplin

    Joplin

    Open source note taking and to-do app with synchronization

    Joplin is a free and open source note-taking and to-do application that can handle a large number of notes in Markdown format, organize them into notebooks and synchronize them with various cloud services. All notes can also be copied, tagged, searched and modified directly from the app or through your own text editor. Notes that are exported from Evernote can be imported into Joplin, be it formatted content, resources, complete metadata or plain Markdown files. When notes are synchronized with cloud services, notebooks, tags and other metadata can easily be moved, inspected or backed up as plain text files. Supported cloud services include Nextcloud, OneDrive, Dropbox and WebDAV. Joplin is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android, with three types: desktop, mobile and terminal. All of them have similar user interfaces and can be synchronized with each other.
    Downloads: 48 This Week
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    Utilities for general- and special-purpose documentation. Includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.
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    Downloads: 159 This Week
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    Swagger UI

    Swagger UI

    HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that generate Swagger documentation

    Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API. Simplify API development for users, teams, and enterprises with the Swagger open source and professional toolset. Find out how Swagger can help you design and document your APIs at scale. The power of Swagger tools starts with the OpenAPI Specification — the industry standard for RESTful API design. Individual tools to create, update and share OpenAPI definitions with consumers. SwaggerHub is the platform solution to support OpenAPI workflows at scale. Swagger open source and pro tools have helped millions of API developers, teams, and organizations deliver great APIs. Swagger offers the most powerful and easiest to use tools to take full advantage of the OpenAPI Specification.
    Downloads: 34 This Week
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    The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.
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    Downloads: 872 This Week
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    cloc (Count Lines Of Code) counts, and computes differences of, comment lines, blank lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages. cloc is now being developed at https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
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    Downloads: 110 This Week
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    Swagger Editor

    Swagger Editor

    An editor designed for Swagger

    Swagger Editor lets you edit Swagger API specifications in YAML inside your browser and to preview documentations in real time. Valid Swagger JSON descriptions can then be generated and used with the full Swagger tooling (code generation, documentation, etc). swagger-editor is a traditional npm module intended for use in single-page applications that are capable of resolving dependencies (via Webpack, Browserify, etc). swagger-editor-dist is a dependency-free module that includes everything you need to serve Swagger Editor in a server-side project, or a web project that can't resolve npm module dependencies. If you're building a single-page application, using swagger-editor is strongly recommended, since swagger-editor-dist is significantly larger.
    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    Papermerge

    Papermerge

    Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives

    Papermerge is an open source document management system (DMS) primarily designed for archiving and retrieving your digital documents. Instead of having piles of paper documents all over your desk, office or drawers - you can quickly scan them and configure your scanner to directly upload to Papermerge DMS. Store, organize and index scanned documents in PDF, JPEG and TIFF formats. Instantly find relevant information using full text, tags and metadata-based search. Papermerge is free and open-source software which means that transparency is the core value of our software development. Source code can be reviewed and improved by anyone from anywhere. Papermerge supports multiple users. Each user can be assigned different permissions to perform only a specific kind of action e.g. view only documents from a specific folder. OCR technology is vital part of Papermerge. It extracts text information from scanned documents, PDF, JPEG, TIFF files.
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    Foswiki
    Foswiki is an Enterprise wiki, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge base or document management system. Users can create wiki applications using the Topic Markup Language, and developers can extend its functionality with plugins. Foswiki stands for "Free and Open Source" wiki to emphasize its commitment to Open Source software.
    Downloads: 66 This Week
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    BookStack

    BookStack

    Simple & Free Wiki Software

    BookStack is a free and open source platform for storing and organising information and documentation. A self-hosted and opinionated wiki system, BookStack is simple and easy to use, giving even new users with just basic word-processing skills a pleasant out of the box experience. BookStack offers a relaxed, open and positive approach. While the platform can provide advanced power features to those who want them, it is primarily designed not to be extensible outside of its core purpose. That being said, BookStack already comes with plenty of powerful features, such as search and linking, cross-book sorting, image management and more. It is also multi-lingual and offers options for authentication integration.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    LaRecipe

    LaRecipe

    Write gorgeous documentation for your products using Markdown

    Write gorgeous documentation with Markdown inside your Laravel apps. LaRecipe is simply a code-driven package provides an easy way to create beautiful documentation for your product or application inside your Laravel app. Configure your entire docs with simple PHP code. None of your docs configurations is stored in the database. LaRecipe provides a bunch of amazing-looking UI Vue-based components powered by TailwindCSS. LaRecipe allows you add your own custom assets though custom packages in order to match your needs. LaRecipe automatically leverages Markdown to HTML parser out of the box including typography, images, links and others. LaRecipe provides a bunch of amazing looking UI Vue based components due to the fact it compiles the markdown documentation in the back-end to HTML. If you have a very large documentation it's very handy to have search function available so that your users can find their needs quickly.
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    terraform-docs

    terraform-docs

    Generate documentation from Terraform modules in various formats

    terraform-docs is a utility to generate documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats. The terraform-docs configuration file uses the yaml format in order to override any default behaviors. This is a convenient way to share the configuration amongst teammates, CI, or other toolings. Once you set it up and configured it, every time you or your teammates want to regenerate documentation (manually, through a pre-commit hook, or as part of a CI pipeline) all you need to do is run terraform-docs /module/path. One of the most popular format is markdown table, which is a very good fit for generating README of module. terraform-docs is available on Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD platforms. terraform-docs will locate any available configuration file without needing to explicitly pass the --config flag.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Doks

    Doks

    Everything you need to build a stellar documentation website

    Doks is a lightweight documentation generator built on Hugo, a fast static site generator. It is designed to help developers create well-structured, user-friendly documentation sites with modern UI components and performance optimizations.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Zeal

    Zeal

    Offline documentation browser inspired by Dash

    Zeal is a simple offline documentation browser inspired by Dash. Get binary builds for Windows and Linux from the download page. After installing Zeal go to Tools ⟶ Docsets to browse and download docsets. You can limit search results to specific (or a set of specific) docsets. The docset filter and the search query are delimited by a colon character (:). If you prefer, you can start Zeal with a query from the command line. You can also search multiple docsets separating them with a comma. You can limit the search scope by using ':' to indicate the desired docsets.
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    The project is to translate latest vim help documentations into simplified Chinese.
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    Downloads: 70 This Week
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    Msc-generator

    Msc-generator

    Draws signalling charts, block diagrams and graphs from text input.

    NOTE! We have moved to https://gitlab.com/msc-generator/msc-generator All development happens there. Also, download new releases & submit issues there. A tool to draw various charts from textual descriptions. Currently, three types of charts are supported: Message Sequence Charts, generic Graphs, and Block Diagrams, with more to be added in the future. There is a command-line version for Linux and Mac (replacing mscgen), which now sports a GUI, as well. Msc-generator allows fine control over the appearance and has a rich feature set complete with detailed documentation. On Windows, you can embed the charts in a document or presentation and simply double-click it in Office to edit them. On Linux and the Mac, a command-line version is available, and a GUI, as well. A .deb package is available starting from Debian Bookworm (currently testing) and Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04) from the official repositories. For older releases see the Wiki. A Mac homebrew package is available.
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    Downloads: 37 This Week
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    DocFX

    DocFX

    Static site generator for .NET API documentation

    DocFX can produce documentation from source code (including C#, F#, Visual Basic, REST, JavaScript, Java, Python and TypeScript) as well as raw Markdown files. DocFX can run on Linux, macOS, and Windows. The generated static website can be deployed to any host such as GitHub Pages or Azure Websites with no additional configuration. DocFX provides a flexible way to customize templates and themes. DocFX makes it extremely easy to generate your developer hub with a landing page, API reference, and conceptual documentation, from a variety of sources. DocFX builds a static HTML website from your source code and Markdown files, which can be easily hosted on any webserver (for example, github.io). Also, DocFX provides you the flexibility to customize the layout and style of your website through templates. If you are interested in creating your own website with your own styles, you can follow how to create a custom template to create custom templates.
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    TagSpaces

    TagSpaces

    TagSpaces is an offline, open source, document manager with tagging

    TagSpaces is a free, no vendor lock-in, open source application for organizing, annotating and managing local files with the help of tags. It features advanced note taking functionalities and some capabilities of to-do apps. The application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android. We provide a web clipper extension for Firefox, Edge and Chrome for easy collecting of online content in the form of local files. File and folder management - TagSpaces provides a convenient user interface for browsing, viewing and man files and folders. The application supports two ways for tagging files. The default one embeds the tags directly in the name of the file, the other one uses a so called sidecar files for persisting the tags. The search functionality supports fuzzy functionality and can filter your locations for files and folders containing one or more tags.
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    AsciiDoc is a presentable text document format for writing articles, UNIX man pages and other small to medium sized documents. The asciidoc(1) command translates AsciiDoc files to HTML, DocBook and LinuxDoc formats.
    Downloads: 32 This Week
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    ECMAScript

    ECMAScript

    Status, process, and documents for ECMA-262

    The most accurate and up-to-date ECMAScript specification. It contains the content of the most recent yearly snapshot plus any finished proposals (those that have reached Stage 4 in the proposal process and thus are implemented in several implementations and will be in the next practical revision) since that snapshot was taken. This Ecma Standard defines the ECMAScript 2022 Language. It is the twelfth edition of the ECMAScript Language Specification. Since publication of the first edition in 1997, ECMAScript has grown to be one of the world's most widely used general-purpose programming languages. It is best known as the language embedded in web browsers but has also been widely adopted for server and embedded applications. ECMAScript is based on several originating technologies, the most well-known being JavaScript (Netscape) and JScript (Microsoft). The language was invented by Brendan Eich at Netscape and first appeared in that company's Navigator 2.0 browser.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Laravel Request Docs

    Laravel Request Docs

    Effortless API documentation tool for Laravel applications

    The Hassle-Free automatic API documentation generation for Laravel. Automatic rules fetching from injected Request and by regexp. Automatic routes fetching from Laravel Routes. Support for Laravel logs. Support for SQL query and query time. Support for HTTP response time and memory consumption. Support for Authorization Headers. Support for File uploads, and support for Eloquents events. Display extra documentation using markdown. Saves the history of previous requests. Added filters to sort, group, and filter routes by methods, controllers, middleware, and routes. Export Laravel API, routes, rules, and documentation to Postman and OpenAPI 3.0.0.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Sphinx

    Sphinx

    Main repository for the Sphinx documentation builder

    Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license. It was originally created for the Python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the documentation of software projects in a range of languages. Of course, this site is also created from reStructuredText sources using Sphinx! HTML (including Windows HTML Help), LaTeX (for printable PDF versions), ePub, Texinfo, manual pages, plain text. Semantic markup and automatic links for functions, classes, citations, glossary terms and similar pieces of information. Easy definition of a document tree, with automatic links to siblings, parents and children. General index as well as a language-specific module index. Automatic highlighting using the Pygments highlighter. Automatic testing of code snippets, the inclusion of docstrings from Python modules (API docs), and more.
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