What up, docs? 🥕 (JS Party #50)

Safia, Nick, Jerod, and Chris get together to talk about documentation. Documentation is essential in our work but it can be difficult to get buy-in. The crew talks about how you can get others to care about it in your organization, tools that make documentation easier, and some examples of companies doing it right.

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Featuring:

• Safia Abdalla – Website, GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• @kahliltweets on Twitter
• Safia loves the React Styleguidist
• Read about Literate Programming on Wikipedia
• Jeremy Ashkenas’ Literate CoffeeScript
• Docco is a tool for literate programming
• Stripe’s API docs are 👌
• So are Twilio’s
• Nick likes Chai’s docs
• Jerod mentions UmbrellaJS, everyone is impressed
• Dash is 💣 for macOS docs
• Maybe Velocity is just as cool for Windows?
• In terms of guides, check out Ruby on Rails and GitHub’s Open Source Guides

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!