Mkdocs Material
Documentation that simply works
Overview
Material for MkDocs is a powerful and user-friendly theme for creating professional static sites for documentation. With Material for MkDocs, you can focus on the content of your documentation without needing to know HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. The theme works on all devices, automatically adapting to different screen sizes. It can be customized easily, allowing you to change colors, fonts, language, icons, and more. Material for MkDocs is fast and lightweight, ensuring optimal performance and search engine rankings. It also prioritizes accessibility, allowing users to navigate the documentation using touch devices, keyboards, and screen readers. Developed with state-of-the-art open source technologies, Material for MkDocs is trusted by industry leaders and is licensed under MIT.
Features
- Everything you would expect: Provides all the features you would expect from a professional documentation theme.
- Focus on the content: Allows you to focus on the content of your documentation without needing to know HTML, CSS, or JavaScript.
- Responsive design: Automatically adapts to different screen sizes, ensuring a seamless experience on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
- Customizable appearance: Easily change colors, fonts, language, icons, logo, and more to customize the theme to your liking.
- Fast and lightweight: Offers excellent performance with a small footprint, resulting in fast loading times and improved search engine rankings.
- Accessible for all users: Supports touch devices, keyboards, and screen readers to ensure that your documentation is accessible to everyone.
- Open source: Built with open source technologies and actively maintained by a community of over 20,000 users.
- Trusted by industry leaders: Used by companies such as Atlassian, AWS, Bloomberg, Google, Microsoft, and more.
- MkDocs
MkDocs is a fast, simple and downright gorgeous static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file.
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Documentation
Documentation themes are built specifically for writing technical and product documentation. They are normally written and maintained in Markdown. The often include a navigation menu, search bar, clear headings, semantic document structure and clean typography.
- Templates & Themes
A template or theme refers to a pre-designed layout or structure that provides a basic framework for building a specific type of application or website. It typically includes good design, placeholder content and functional features, allowing developers to customize and fill in the details according to their specific needs.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Material Design
Material Design is a design system developed by Google that provides a set of guidelines, components, and tools for creating visually appealing and functional user interfaces. Material Design is designed to be flexible and customizable, making it a great choice for a wide range of applications and use cases.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- Stylelint
Stylelint is a modern linter for CSS that helps you avoid errors and enforce consistent styling conventions. It provides rules for detecting errors and warnings, and can be configured to match your specific project's requirements.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
