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Doctave

Documentation site generator that converts Markdown files into a developer documentation site, distributed as a Rust binary.

Doctave is a command-line tool that converts a folder of Markdown files into a documentation site. It is written in Rust and distributed as a single binary, installed from precompiled downloads, through Homebrew, or with Cargo from the GitHub repository. doctave serve previews the site locally, and doctave build --release writes it as a static bundle into the site directory.

The open source tool is built and maintained by Doctave.com.

Worth knowing

The README says Doctave is not a generic static site generator and only generates documentation sites from Markdown. The deployment guide walks through publishing on GitHub Pages.

Identity

Status
Stub
Maintainer
Doctave6
First release
20204

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Static files, Dev only38
Rendering
Static output3
Install with
binary download7

Releases

Current major version
Pre-1.04
Last release
2022-04-024

Adoption

GitHub stars
6702
Contributors
35

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-10-23: links, Categories, Runtime, License model
    cli.doctave.com/
  2. 2026-10-23: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/Doctave/doctave
  3. 2026-10-23: Rendering, Runs as
    cli.doctave.com/deployment
  4. 2026-10-23: First release, Current major version, Last release
    api.github.com/repos/Doctave/doctave/releases
  5. 2026-10-23: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/Doctave/doctave/contributors
  6. 2026-10-23: Maintainer
    github.com/Doctave/doctave/blob/master/LICENSE
  7. 2026-10-23: Install with
    cli.doctave.com/installing
  8. 2026-10-23: Runs as
    github.com/Doctave/doctave/blob/master/README.md

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