A hosted, fully-featured Docusaurus alternative

Doctave is a hosted Docusaurus alternative for building beautiful developer portals, API references, and SDK documentation with first-class Git integration

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How is Doctave different from Docusaurus?

A hosted platform for modern technical documentation

Unlike a static site generator like Docusaurus, Doctave is a platform for building beautiful developer portals, API references, and knowledge bases

When should I pick Docusaurus?

Docusaurus is a great when you want full control over your documentation. Being an open-source project, it's easy to contribute to and extend.

You will however need to dedicate more engineering resources to setup and maintain your documentation. Search, deployment pipelines, access control, and customizing plugins are all things that you will need to worry about yourself.

If you have dedicated documentation engineers, Docusaurus is a great choice that gives you full control over your documentation.

When should I pick Doctave?

If you want to get up and running quickly, Doctave is a great choice. Doctave takes care of the hosting, analytics, and preview environments for you, so you can focus on writing great content.

Doctave also supports OpenAPI documentation out of the box, letting you unify your API references and product documentation.

If you want a great looking, fully-featured developer portal without dedicated engineering resources, Doctave is the better way to go.

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Document anything

SDK docs, API references, product guides, all in one place

Build developer portals that feature code samples, detailed API references, comprehensive SDK documentation, and helpful tutorials.

OpenAPI references

Bring your OpenAPI specification, and Doctave will generate gorgeous API reference documentation

doctave.yaml
---
title: Nebularis API

openapi:
  - spec_file: openapi.yaml
    uri_prefix: /api/v1




            

Flexible site structure

Create separate sections for different types of content by splitting your site into multiple tabs

doctave.yaml
tabs:
  - name: Guides
    path: /
  - name: SDKs
    path: /sdks
    tabs:
      - name: JavaScript
        path: /sdks/javascript
      - name: Python
        path: /sdks/python
      - name: Java
        path: /sdks/java


            

Customizable theme

Customize the look and feel of your site with a custom theme, without having to write any CSS

doctave.yaml
theme:
  colors:
    accent: "#F76B15"
    grayscale: sand
  logo:
    src: _assets/logo.svg
    src_dark: _assets/logo-dark.svg
  radius: medium

            

These folks get it

Trusted by teams that care about their documentation

Doctave powers the developer documentation of world-class API-first, developer tools, and cybersecurity companies

"Doctave has proven to be an ideal solution for our public API documentation"

Upvest had always pursued a documentation-as-code strategy, using an open-source static site generator, but we faced a challenge building a Git-driven system that could manage access to content for multiple API versions and audiences.

Doctave provides us that flexibility out-of-the-box whilst allowing us to maintain absolute control of our OpenAPI spec and documentation development processes.“

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Geoffrey Teale

Head of Developer eXperience at Upvest

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"Adopting Doctave as api.video's documentation platform was a game-changer"

The flexible content structure enabled us to organize our information more intuitively, while the ability to customize the design helped maintain the api.video branding.

Doctave’s out-of-the-box integration with popular analytics tools gave us the ability to track and understand user engagement with our documentation.

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Zoltan

Technical Writer at api.video

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