Build a documentation corpus, not just a website.
Documints turns one canonical source into polished pages for humans and structured knowledge for machines. Write naturally in Markdown and React. Documints generates the website, clean Markdown, search, and agent-ready context automatically.
Human-readable by design. Machine-readable by default.
Documentation without the usual constraints
Keep docs close to the code they explain, choose the right format for every page, and publish one fast, flexible corpus for humans and AI.
Human Pages. AI-Ready Source.
Every document becomes a polished web page and clean, directly readable Markdown for agents, crawlers, and developer tools.
Write Docs Anywhere
Add .doc.md, .doc.mdx, or .doc.tsx to any package or folder. Documints discovers it without forcing your content into a separate docs directory.
Full React Pages
Build entire documentation pages with .doc.tsx using real React, state, components, and interactions—not a restricted docs-specific abstraction.
Static by Default
Every route prerenders to complete HTML. Deploy fast, durable files anywhere with no production server or framework runtime.
Content-Driven Routing
Define hierarchy with document metadata instead of folder structure. Reorganize source files without changing public URLs.
The Vite Ecosystem
Use standard Vite plugins from npm alongside Documints plugins. No proprietary plugin system or parallel toolchain to learn.
Colocated by Design
Keep documentation beside the code it describes. Documints uses configurable globs to discover documents across your entire repository.
Markdown When You Want It
Write focused prose in Markdown, add live React with MDX, or use TSX for fully interactive pages—all inside one documentation corpus.
Different tools. Different foundations.
Feature lists may look similar. The architecture underneath them is not.
Most tools build documentation websites. Documints builds a documentation corpus.
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Capability
Different foundation
Documints
Document-native infrastructure
Docusaurus
Extensible React docs framework
VitePress
Streamlined Vue docs framework
Starlight
Astro-powered docs framework
Mintlify
Managed knowledge platform
Framework
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React
Vue + Vite
Astro
Managed platform
Routing and hierarchy
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Docs can live beside code
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Full custom page authoring
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Raw Markdown page
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Structured JSON page
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Site-wide machine-readable manifesti
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AI discoveryi
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Search
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Hosting
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Any static host
Any static host
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Best fit
▾ ArchitectureTeams that want a repository-owned corpus for humans, machines, and AI
Large React teams needing deep extensibility
Vue teams wanting a fast, simple site
Astro teams wanting a polished docs site
Teams wanting a managed, hands-off platform
Each tool is a credible fit for a different kind of team. This grid shows tradeoffs, not a scoreboard.