Playing with Interactive Documentation
summary
GitHub open-sources docs.github.com and prototypes a week‑long Next.js + TypeScript playground that uses Monaco and Primer to attach code editors to narrative sections, highlight line ranges, show a GitHub status bar and embed videos. Experiments live in a repo, nothing is production shipped, and learnings are concrete: interactive examples surface hard writing and sandboxing problems, users break sandboxes, and some UI elements are ready to port.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 1:53"Documentation is highly valued, but often overlooked"
- 4:36Interactive documentation How can words be interactive?
- 5:21Interactivity is powerful.
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