# jashkenas/docco

Literate Programming can be Quick and Dirty.

Repository: https://github.com/jashkenas/docco
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/docco
Homepage: http://ashkenas.com/docco/
Language: HTML
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-11-17T10:31:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 56/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 52, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6030, "days_push": 289, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3572, forks 561 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:10.748953+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, markdown
- domain: documentation, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: literate-programming, docco, syntax-highlighting, html-docs, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- jashkenas/docco (main) score 56

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:10.748953+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 2026-08-29T18:34:05.296753+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jashkenas/docco (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:10.748953+00:00, sha 1c92e5127fe9)
  - homepage: http://ashkenas.com/docco/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:27:38.108831+00:00, sha beee123c25cb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.