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AsyncAPI Generator

asyncapi.com

MkDocs

mkdocs.org

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Price fromFree—
Free planYes—
Free trial——
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Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
LinuxYesYes
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published10
Spec score · Documentation Generators8.0 (#9)7.6 (#17)
PurposeThe Generator uses an AsyncAPI document and a template to generate documentation, code, diagrams, microservices, applications, and other defined outputs.MkDocs is a static site generator geared toward building project documentation from Markdown and a single YAML configuration file.

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MkDocs

MkDocs is a static site generator for project documentation written in Markdown, with project settings held in a YAML file. It produces static HTML that can be published to GitHub Pages, Amazon S3, or another static-file host. Its development server provides a local preview and refreshes it when documentation changes; generated sites also include search that can link to matching sections. The command-line tools cover creating a project, serving a preview, building the site, checking dependencies, and deploying to GitHub Pages. MkDocs uses Python-Markdown and requires a recent Python version and pip. The built-in mkdocs and readthedocs themes are available alongside third-party and custom themes, while plugins, Markdown extensions, and configuration options allow further changes. The built-in mkdocs theme supports several locales, including English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Chinese. MkDocs is free, available for Linux, macOS, Windows, and self-hosted use, and distributed under the BSD license. Third-party themes and plugins run their authors’ code without sandboxing.

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