jashkenas/docco
Literate Programming can be Quick and Dirty. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
56/100
- Activity 52
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 6030
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 289
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3572 stars · 561 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Docco is a quick-and-dirty, hundred-line literate-programming-style documentation generator. It produces HTML pages that intermingle Markdown comments with syntax-highlighted code for source files in any language.
Use cases
- generate HTML documentation from source code comments
- literate programming style docs for CoffeeScript or Python
- produce side-by-side comment and code pages for a codebase
- document shell scripts or any language via languages.
- render annotated source code with Highlight.js highlighting
When to choose
- you want fast, zero-config annotated source documentation
- you prefer literate-programming style over API reference docs
- you work in Node.js and want a simple npm-installed generator
When to avoid
- you need searchable, large-scale API documentation
- you require customizable doc themes beyond simple CSS/template tweaks
- your project needs actively maintained feature-rich doc tooling
Facets
cli-tool · maturity maintenance
documentation markdown documentation developer-tools cli cross-platform literate-programming docco syntax-highlighting html-docs command-line nodejs
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/jashkenas/docco · fetched 2026-08-28 · 1c92e5127fe9
- homepage: http://ashkenas.com/docco/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · beee123c25cb
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| jashkenas/docco | main | 56 |
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