Antora vs DocFX

Overview

Antora is a modular, multi-repository site generator designed for producing documentation sites from content composed in AsciiDoc and converted to HTML using Asciidoctor and Handlebars.

Antora provides both a toolchain and workflow to help documentation and engineering teams create, manage, collaborate on, remix, and publish documentation sites aggregated from multi-branch git repositories without needing expertise in web technologies, build automation, or system administration.

Who it's for

Tech writers, first and foremost.

If you're already using Asciidoctor, and you need help managing a large set of documentation written in AsciiDoc, Antora was designed for you. If you haven't yet tried Asciidoctor (or AsciiDoc), Antora is a great way to get started because it provides everything you need to start writing and publishing documentation today.

What it includes

Antora includes a command line interface (CLI) (command: antora), a preassembled site generator pipeline, and a default UI so you can get started quickly publishing documentation sites with Antora.

Since Antora is both modular and extensible, there are plenty of opportunities to explore to take it further once you have your first site up and running.

Availability

Antora is available as a suite of npm packages and a Docker image. Antora runs on any platform that supports Node, which includes Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Learn more

To learn more about Antora, be sure to check out the documentation, which, as you would expect, is published by Antora itself.

DocFX is an API documentation generator for .NET, and currently it supports C# and VB. It generates API reference documentation from triple-slash comments in your source code. It also allows you to use Markdown files to create additional topics such as tutorials and how-tos, and to customize the generated reference documentation. DocFX builds a static HTML website from your source code and Markdown files, which can be easily hosted on any web servers (for example, github.io). Also, DocFX provides you the flexibility to customize the layout and style of your website through templates. If you are interested in creating your own website with your own styles, you can follow how to create custom template to create custom templates.

DocFX also has the following cool features:

• Integration with your source code. You can click "View Source" on an API to navigate to the source code in GitHub (your source code must be pushed to GitHub).
• Cross-platform support. We have exe version that runs under Windows. It can also runs cross platforms on Linux/macOS with Mono.
• Integration with Visual Studio. You can seamlessly use DocFX within Visual Studio with Install-Package docfx.console
• Markdown extensions. We introduced DocFX Flavored Markdown(DFM) to help you write API documentation. DFM is 100% compatible with GitHub Flavored Markdown(GFM) with some useful extensions, like file inclusion, code snippet, cross reference, and yaml header. For detailed description about DFM, please refer to DFM.
• VSCode integration. Install docfx extension in vscode to preview the content in real-time.