# freeCodeCamp/devdocs

API Documentation Browser

Repository: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/devdocs
Homepage: https://devdocs.io
Language: Ruby
License: MPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: devdocs, documentation, documentation-tool, developer-tools, docs, offline, app, api-documentation, pwa
Last push: 2026-08-26T20:41:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4696, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 39378, forks 2630 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:07.843127+00:00)

## What it is
DevDocs is an API documentation browser that combines multiple developer documentations into a single clean web UI with instant search, offline support, and keyboard shortcuts. It consists of a Ruby scraper that generates documentation and a JavaScript/Sinatra app, runnable locally via Docker or used hosted at devdocs.io.

## Use cases
- browse API docs for multiple languages offline
- search across all developer documentation instantly
- self-host a local documentation browser with Docker
- read docs on mobile with a PWA
- look up HTML, CSS, and other docs without internet

## When to choose
- you want one unified interface for many API documentations
- you need offline access to docs
- you want fast keyboard-driven doc search

## When to avoid
- you need deep, full-text search within a single project's private docs
- you want an IDE-integrated documentation plugin

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, search-engine, web-scraping, developer-tools
- domain: documentation, developer-tools, web-development
- platform: self-hosted, browser, ruby
- tags: api-documentation, offline-docs, pwa, docs-browser, instant-search, web-server, docker, nodejs

## Member repositories
- freeCodeCamp/devdocs (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:07.843127+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:24:07.975440+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:07.843127+00:00, sha 03e7796ac1d3)
  - homepage: https://devdocs.io (fetched 2026-08-29T07:46:46.018215+00:00, sha f0aab7e43086)
  - site_page: https://devdocs.io/news (fetched 2026-08-29T07:46:46.027204+00:00, sha f0aab7e43086)
  - site_page: https://devdocs.io/about (fetched 2026-08-29T07:46:46.029003+00:00, sha f0aab7e43086)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.