Platforms
There are many platforms you can host documentation on, it depends on your needs. They're tagged with emoji for what they're appropriate for.
🛠 Small Tool
📚 Library
🐯 Low-Distribution Platform
🐅 High-Distribution Open-Source Platform
🦍 Platform-As-A-Service
Simple Documentation Hosts
- Github Pages 🛠 📚 🐅
- Read The Docs 🛠 📚 🐯 🐅
- Readme.io 🛠 📚 🐯 🐅 🦍
- Kuma (MDN) 🐯 🐅 🦍
- Gitbook 🛠 📚 🐯 🐅
Auto-Generating Documentation Specifications
- Swagger (for REST)
- JSDoc (& documentation.js)
- http://apidocjs.com/ (for REST)
- IODocs (also for REST)
- Test2Docs