docusaurus
by meta
Docusaurus is a tool for building and maintaining documentation websites, with built-in support for docs pages, a blog and translations. It is made for publishing project documentation that is easy to update and customise.
- Stars
- 66.6k
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- Your computer
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- TypeScript
- Age
- 3419 days
What you can do with it
- Create a documentation website with a home page, docs section and blog
- Translate your documentation into several languages
- Customise the look and pages of your site, then deploy it to hosts such as Netlify or Vercel
Make money with it
A freelancer could build and maintain documentation sites for software companies or open-source projects as a paid service.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Publish a product help centre or user guide without paying for a hosted documentation service
- Run a company blog and knowledge base on one static site that is cheap to host
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Run the command "npm init docusaurus@latest" to create a site, which needs Node.js and some comfort with the command line.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Who's talking about it
Checked 31 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
