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Docusaurus: Create your project documentation simply and efficiently!

“Build optimized websites fast, focus on your content”

Josue Luzardo Gebrim
3 min readMar 12, 2023

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Docusaurus is an open-source project powered by Facebook that provides a set of tools and documentation site templates to help developers create high-quality, easy-to-use documentation sites for their projects.

The project is based on several key components, including:

  • Markdown: Docusaurus uses Markdown to write documentation,
  • React: Docusaurus is built with React, a popular framework for building user interfaces,
  • Webpack: Webpack is used for packaging the project’s code and dependencies,
  • Prism: Prism is a syntax highlighter used to highlight the syntax of code within the documentation.

Docusaurus is highly configurable and customizable, allowing developers to easily customize the look and feel of their documentation site. It is also well-documented and has a large community of active developers who contribute plugins and themes to the project.

In short, Docusaurus is a useful tool for developers who want to create high-quality, user-friendly documentation for their projects.

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Josue Luzardo Gebrim

As a platform engineer, ecosystems, and data solutions, I'm sharing my opinion and what little I know from time to time here.