HACKER Q&A
📣 jayparth

What Products Have Documentation?


I'm working on writing some developer documentation and looking for excellent docs. What products have amazing documentation? (besides Stripe, which we all love)

I'm personally interested in cases where the product is especially complicated, but let's keep the discussion explicitly general.

  👤 muzani Accepted Answer ✓
I used to like Twitter Fabric's docs. It was so straightforward it was practically copy-paste. Facebook does similar well with their APIs.

PHP has really good documentation, compared to say, JS. On the other extreme,

Android has the worst, so bad that the unofficial documentation is Stack Overflow and this: https://guides.codepath.com/android

Parse's has a few holes in it. But overall I like it because it highlights lesser known features like their many-to-many data structures and security ACL, and straight up tells you how to use them without being too wordy. https://docs.parseplatform.org/android/guide/

👤 atsaloli
Postgres has excellent documentation.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/

👤 Inu
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17399340
👤 CM30
Say what you like about Bootstrap as a framework, but the documentation is pretty damn good for it. Every aspect of the system is documented, there are plenty of examples where needed, and its written in such a readable way that even novice web developers can understand everything pretty much immediately.
👤 sgillen
Probably not the flavor you are looking for. But both Matlab and especially Mathematica have excellent docs. You can I think browse these for free online. Though part of what makes the docs excellent is that they integrate right into the IDE.
👤 jayparth
Haha, I just realized the typo in the title. "What products have documentation?" -- most of them.
👤 billconan
https://doc.qt.io/