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Due to some very annoying behaviour of gratipay (the donation service devdocs uses) I have donated over $100 to them last year of the course of a few months. Not what I wanted to donate, but then again there aren't many websites that I use more often in my day to day work. So I am not too bummed about it.

Great work guys!

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Thanks! Your donation is very much appreciated.

Don't feel like you have to donate, though. The app is cheap to host (one of the benefits of an offline-enabled, no-accounts-required, optimized-to-the-max web app is that the backend doesn't do much :P), and I'm lucky that MaxCDN & others are providing free service to the app.

What keeps me going is seeing the impact that DevDocs is having (people using and liking it). So the best way to "give back" is to spread the word, send a thank you note, and contribute (one thing in particular that would be great to see is more/better extensions & integrations with code editors).

(I'm the creator/maintainer of DevDocs)

Can you elaborate a bit about your implementation? I'd love to learn more about the techniques you have used.

https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs

I elaborated a little bit in the past here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/devdocs/T9_FsjB1kHw

I've been thinking about writing blog posts on DevDocs's internals and the techniques it uses for a while, but it's hard to find the time, especially when I already spend a lot of my spare time maintaining/updating the app.

That said, feel free to open a GitHub issue to remind me to write blog posts at some point (if there is interest), or if you have specific questions.

I was going to suggest -- a VS Code Extension would be cool.

edit: nvm. I found it: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=akfish.v...

Could you specify more on the front-end code on this project, did you hand-roll your own javascript front-end or did you use a framework? The whole thing is rather impressive and I'm looking to do something similar to your sidebar with my own project. Is all of your open source code open to be re-used/modified?

Thanks! The front-end doesn't use any JavaScript framework. See the code here: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs.

All of the code is licensed under MPL 2.0 [1], so you're welcome to reuse/modify it in your own projects.

[1]: https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/blob/master/LICENSE

Is there a way to request Elm library docs be included?

Nevermind. I just saw https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING....

You can submit pull requests to add new docs if you're so motivated.

One of the greatest in-kind sponsorships MaxCDN did for sure. Really happy to see you're still at it after all these years Thibaut!

It happened thanks to you :) And you/MaxCDN also played a part in getting the app open-sourced sooner rather than later.

Happy our paths crossed again here!

Interesting, I don't use the daily, but when I need, I REALLY need it. How come you use it that often is it your main go to? My day to day is mainly googling as a portal to stackoverflow for specific doubts.

It is my goto yes. I use it anywhere from checking how some method or function is named again to finding out what I can do with certain types of objects or classes. The search is really practical for me there. I also peek into the source code of functions etc. it is the only pinned tab I have usually.

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