# Docute

Documentation site generator that renders a folder of Markdown files as a single-page application, with no build step.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/docute/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-22
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-22

## Record

### Links

- home: https://docute.egoist.dev
- repository: https://github.com/egoist/docute
- docs: https://docute.egoist.dev
- plugins: https://github.com/egoist/docute-plugins

### Identity

- status: discontinued
- maintainer: EGOIST
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2016
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: static
- language: javascript
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: vue

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: yes

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static, browser
- renderingModes: spa
- installMethod: npm install docute

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 4
- latestReleaseDate: 2019-10-03

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 3801
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 518
- contributors: 14
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 7
- dependentPackages: 7

### Sources

- status: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- status: https://api.github.com/repos/egoist/docute (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/egoist/docute (read 2026-10-22)
- maintainer: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/egoist/docute (read 2026-10-22)
- category: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/website/docs/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- basedOn: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- renderingModes: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/website/docs/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- runsAs: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/website/docs/guide/deployment.md (read 2026-10-22)
- runsAs: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/website/docs/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- installMethod: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/website/docs/guide/use-with-bundlers.md (read 2026-10-22)
- i18n: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/website/docs/guide/internationalization.md (read 2026-10-22)
- contentStore: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/website/docs/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/egoist/docute (read 2026-10-22)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-22)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/egoist/docute/releases (read 2026-10-22)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/egoist/docute/releases (read 2026-10-22)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/egoist/docute/releases (read 2026-10-22)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/egoist/docute (read 2026-10-22)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/egoist/docute/contributors (read 2026-10-22)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/docute (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://github.com/egoist/docute/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/docute (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/docute (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Docute is a documentation site generator with no build step. A JavaScript file fetches Markdown files and renders them as a single-page application in the browser, so a site is an HTML file plus Markdown documents served as static files from any host. It is built on Vue, and bundler use starts with an npm install. Multi-language sites are set up with a folder per language.

## Worth knowing

The README states that the project is no longer actively maintained, and the repository is archived. The list of official plugins lives in a separate repository.

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