MkDocs: Documenting projects with Markdown
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MkDocs is a Python library that builds static documentation sites from Markdown and aims to keep prose first not auto‑generated API dumps. It runs a live-reload dev server, uses a simple YAML config (mkdocs.yml), renders navigation from files, embeds client search with Lunr.js, and can publish with a single command to gh-pages deploy or integrate with ReadTheDocs theme. It supports fenced code blocks, linking between Markdown pages, themes distributed via PyPI, has been used by large projects (GlusterFS, docker python client, OSQuery), and omits built‑in docstring extraction and full i18n for now.
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