Show HN: Doc42 – Simple documentation tool

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Thanks for sharing. However, this looks like a theme template for Jekyll more than a standalone tool. Perhaps I'm missing something?

What are the benefits of using this over MkDocs or Sphinx? MkDocs (http://mkdocs.org) definitely appears to be lightyears ahead in simplicity with a YAML TOC and much simpler creation of page content.

Yes and no. It's not exactly a template for that. Actually, I have added a UI framework + some built in components and pages. E.g. the sidebar the generates the page of content.

Actually, I have customized Jekyll to use as a documentation tool.

Echoing another comment- this is strikingly close to a jekyll theme; I see there's some custom work in there.

That said, really beautiful work. It's funny, I was working out whether I could use Jekyll collections for a documentation project today, and now here is this project. Fantastic!

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