Docusaurus vs DocFX

Docusaurus and DocFX are both open source static site generators. Docusaurus is written in JavaScript and DocFX is written in C#.

Property Docusaurus DocFX
Language JavaScript C#
Templates Markdown Mustache, Liquid
License MIT MIT

Docusaurus benefits

Powered by Markdown

Save time and focus on your project's documentation. Simply write docs and blog posts with Markdown and Docusaurus will publish a set of static html files ready to serve.

Built Using React

Extend or customize your project's layout by reusing React. Docusaurus can be extended while reusing the same header and footer.

Ready for Translations

Localization comes pre-configured. Use Crowdin to translate your docs into over 70 languages.

Document Versioning

Support users on all versions of your project. Document versioning helps you keep documentation in sync with project releases.

Document Search

Make it easy for your community to find what they need in your documentation. We proudly support Algolia documentation search.

DocFX benefits

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.