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21 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 3 stories, 18 comments · first 2013-10-25 · latest 2025-12-26

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  1. …in `.git/config`. This allows to pull via HTTPS w/o a hardware touch. [remote "origin"] url = https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs.git pushurl = git@github.com:freeCodeCamp/devdocs.git
    comment by simon04 · 2025-12-26 · in Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH
  2. …[1] and having zeal (on linux) [2] solves a lot of these problems with the offline docs. [1] https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs [2] https://zealdocs.org/
    comment by elashri · 2025-06-07 · in Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
  3. Here's how to add a new scraper: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/blob/main/.github/CO... Or open an issue and wait for somebody else to implement the scraper.
    comment by simon04 · 2024-01-13 · in DevDocs
  4. …very cumbersome and flaky. Monthly, we auto-generate a list of outdated docs, here is the latest: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/issues/2105 Help is always welcome. :-)
    comment by simon04 · 2024-01-12 · in DevDocs
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    Devdocs.io Is Looking for Maintainers
    story by ttyprintk · 2023-05-31 · 0 comments
  6. …a decade. Just making sure you're aware of their significance in this space :) https://devdocs.io/ https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs (9 y/o, 30.7k stars)
    comment by krono · 2023-02-02 · in Show HN: Dev-Docs – A tool that helps you document as you code
  7. Feel free to submit a PR if your favourite programming language is out of date, see https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs/issues/1436 Thanks!
    comment by simon04 · 2020-12-27 · in DevDocs API Documentation got plenty of updates in the past weeks
  8. It appears [0] to be Ruby. [0]: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs
    comment by okanesen · 2017-10-20 · in DevDocs API Documentation
  9. Thanks! The front-end doesn't use any JavaScript framework. See the code here: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs . All of the code is licensed under MPL 2.0 [1], so you're welcome to reuse/modify it in your own projects. [1]:…
    comment by Thibaut · 2017-10-19 · in DevDocs API Documentation
  10. Nevermind. I just saw https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.... You can submit pull requests to add new docs if you're so motivated.
    comment by iamwil · 2017-10-19 · in DevDocs API Documentation
  11. …run so snappy. It actually feels like the help section for a native app. I found the source code: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs It's not really using a client side framework and runs Sinatra on the back end. I will definitely dig more…
    comment by emilioolivares · 2017-10-19 · in DevDocs API Documentation
  12. …Feel free to contribute through their repository [1] Java is under the JDK section by the way. [1] https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs
    comment by guessmyname · 2017-10-19 · in DevDocs API Documentation
  13. https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs
    comment by avtar · 2017-10-19 · in DevDocs API Documentation
  14. …see if it would be worth the trouble of adding it yourself or at least starting the process. [0] https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING....
    comment by Klathmon · 2017-10-19 · in DevDocs API Documentation
  15. And open-source :) ( https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs ) Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of DevDocs
    comment by Thibaut · 2017-10-19 · in DevDocs API Documentation
  16. Seems to be scraping public documentation pages https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/#scraper
    comment by iMerNibor · 2017-10-18 · in Documenting the Web together
  17. …I wish devdocs had was Java integration, but it's been repeatedly stated (just one example here: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/issues/26 ) that they can't include the JDK because of it's restrictive licensee. But, it seems like Dash…
    comment by efuquen · 2014-06-07 · in Dash – Beautiful instant offline docs for almost everything
  18. …documentation I want, lightning fast and without internet connection. The source is available here: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs
    comment by diggan · 2014-06-06 · in Dash – Beautiful instant offline docs for almost everything
  19. Thanks! The project is open source: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs
    comment by Thibaut · 2014-02-04 · in DevDocs: combines multiple API docs in a fast, and organized interface
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    Devdocs API Documentation Browser
    story by zhufenggood · 2013-11-28 · 0 comments
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    Devdocs now on Github
    story by akcreek · 2013-10-25 · 0 comments