# Daux.io

Documentation generator that builds websites from a folder of Markdown files.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/daux/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-20
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-20

## Record

### Links

- home: https://daux.io/
- repository: https://github.com/dauxio/daux.io
- docs: https://daux.io/Getting_Started.html

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Justin Walsh
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: unknown
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: php, static
- language: php
- runtime: php
- runtimeMin: php 8.4
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: multiple languages

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static, per-request
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: composer global require, docker

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-09-10

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 830
- packagistDownloads: 211056
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: unknown
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: 3396
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 21
- dependentPackages: 3

### Sources

- urls: https://daux.io/ (read 2026-10-20)
- urls: https://github.com/dauxio/daux.io (read 2026-10-20)
- urls: https://daux.io/Getting_Started.html (read 2026-10-20)
- maintainer: https://github.com/dauxio/daux.io/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-20)
- category: https://daux.io/ (read 2026-10-20)
- language: https://github.com/dauxio/daux.io (read 2026-10-20)
- runtime: https://repo.packagist.org/p2/daux/daux.io.json (read 2026-10-20)
- runtimeMin: https://repo.packagist.org/p2/daux/daux.io.json (read 2026-10-20)
- contentStore: https://daux.io/Getting_Started.html (read 2026-10-20)
- renderingModes: https://daux.io/Features/Static_Site_Generation.html (read 2026-10-20)
- runsAs: https://daux.io/Features/Static_Site_Generation.html (read 2026-10-20)
- runsAs: https://daux.io/Features/Live_mode.html (read 2026-10-20)
- installMethod: https://daux.io/Getting_Started.html (read 2026-10-20)
- i18n: https://daux.io/ (read 2026-10-20)
- license: https://github.com/dauxio/daux.io (read 2026-10-20)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/dauxio/daux.io/releases/tag/0.26.0 (read 2026-10-20)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/dauxio/daux.io/releases/latest (read 2026-10-20)
- packagistDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/daux/daux.io.json (read 2026-10-20)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/dauxio/daux.io (read 2026-10-20)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/daux%2Fdaux.io (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/daux%2Fdaux.io (read 2026-10-25)
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/daux/daux.io/stats.json (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Daux.io is a PHP documentation generator. It reads Markdown files from a `docs` folder, builds the navigation from the folder structure, and is installed with Composer or run from a Docker image. The [getting started guide](https://daux.io/Getting_Started.html) describes writing pages and running `daux generate`.

The content stays in the Markdown files, and the same source can be written out as a set of static files, or served live by a web server that runs PHP for each request.

## Worth knowing

The [live mode page](https://daux.io/Features/Live_mode.html) says live mode can be used for production but is not recommended. It scans the whole documentation directory on each request, which can become a bottleneck on larger documentation sets.

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