People often unvalue and overlook documentation so the hard work, skill and creativity can sometimes go unrecognised. Inspired by Mark Phillips Beautiful-Docs repository, I decided to create my own repo to highlight some docs sites which are awesome for either their design, layout, content or interactivity.
- Adyen - A clean developer portal and stylish API explorer.
- Apiary - A nice example of interactive documentation.
- Auth0 - Really good API documentation.
- Bonusly - Simple and interactive site built using Gelato.io. What's not to like?
- Box - An engaging API doc created using ReadMe which offers user interactivity.
- Cockroach Labs - Fun, clean and well-designed.
- Digital Ocean - These docs are great. Full of examples and easy/enjoyable to navigate.
- Docker - Not just bigging them up because my boss was a contributor. These are really nice docs - very cool day and night switch to change between dark and light themes.
- Docker API - I really like the three-panelled Docker API docs which have been produced using ReDoc.
- Grafana - Unusual dark theme but really like the design and its in keeping with their brand.
- Lateral.io - A great example of API docs created with API Blueprint renderer Agilo.
- Lightrail Really nice split screen with interactive section that can switch between example and console views.
- Luxbar This docs page demos the flexibility of the product (a CSS navigation bar) as you click around and change the colours, positioning, alignment etc. Very clever.
- Mailchimp - Aspects of this site are so nicely designed it makes me a bit jealous. The API reference guide in particular.
- Mapbox - Very clean docs with nice use of colour.
- Monzo - I'm a big fan of Monzo and like the product, the docs have a great UX design which allows you to scroll effortlessly through the content. This site was produced using Slate.
- Nest - Very cool interactive API reference from Nest Labs (part of Google).
- Rot.js Not necessarily the prettiest but really like the interactive code examples which can be changed. The animated side menu is always pretty cool.
- Shopify Developers - Easy to navigate, in-line glossary pop-ups, search and discoverability as a core site feature, separation of content concerns (API and Knowledgbase are not merged).
- Skyscanner - Another nice set of API docs produced with Slate.
- Slack - Colourful and fun with the Slack brand of humour but well-designed like the product.
- Stripe - Stripe go a great job of providing copy-paste ready sample calls in their API reference guide.
- Twilio - Twilio Docs have a really distinctive style with bold headings and colours to denote each section (green for API/SDKs, blue for Quickstart, yellow for tutorials) to make navigation easy.
- Vue.js - Simple, clean and easy to navigate. Has a nice search feature which splits the search results.