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zalando/restful-api-guidelines

A model set of guidelines for RESTful APIs and Events, created by Zalando

Stack

CSS

GitHub topics

#api #documentation #guidelines #rest-api #restful #restful-api

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-19
History: 7 history points
License: CC-BY-4.0
Issues: 14 open

3,244

stars

Forks: 448
Commits: 1,769 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

eli64s/readme-ai

README file generator, powered by AI.

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest pip Poetry

GitHub topics

#agents #ai #ai-agents #ai-documentation #anthropic #badge-generator

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-01-16
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 58 open

2,996

stars

Forks: 298
Commits: 743 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mitmproxy/pdoc

API Documentation for Python Projects

Stack

Python pytest uv

GitHub topics

#api #api-documentation #docs #docstring #docstrings #documentation

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-04
History: 133 history points
License: MIT-0
Issues: 74 open

2,518

stars

Forks: 232
Commits: 1,119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +3 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

documize/community

Modern Confluence alternative designed for internal & external docs, built with Go + EmberJS

Stack

JavaScript Go modules npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#collaboration #confluence #dashboards #docs #document-conversion #document-management

Updated: 2026-05-18
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-07-08
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

2,415

stars

Forks: 237
Commits: 1,854 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hesamsheikh/ml-retreat

Machine Learning Journal for Intermediate to Advanced Topics.

Stack

Jupyter Notebook

GitHub topics

#data-science #documentation #large-language-models #learning-resources #llm #machine-learning

Updated: 2025-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-09-18
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

2,371

stars

Forks: 252
Commits: 71 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bevy-cheatbook/bevy-cheatbook

Unofficial Reference Book for the Bevy Game Engine

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#bevy #book #documentation #game-development #gamedev #mdbook

Updated: 2025-12-03
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2021-01-20
History: 115 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 119 open

2,366

stars

Forks: 134
Commits: 504 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: -2 -0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bagder/http2-explained

A detailed document explaining and documenting HTTP/2, the successor to the widely popular HTTP/1.1 protocol

Stack

CSS

GitHub topics

#book #documentation #http2 #protocol

Updated: 2024-04-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-25
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 25 open

2,306

stars

Forks: 275
Commits: 494 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bagder/http3-explained

A document describing the HTTP/3 and QUIC protocols

GitHub topics

#documentation #http #http3 #quic #transfer-protocol

Updated: 2024-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-06
History: 5 history points
License: CC-BY-4.0
Issues: 12 open

2,228

stars

Forks: 196
Commits: 441 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ApiGen/ApiGen

PHP 7.1 ready Smart and Simple Documentation for your PHP project

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#apidoc #apigen #documentation #generator #php #php71

Updated: 2025-02-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-06
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 24 open

2,168

stars

Forks: 310
Commits: 3,938 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

MicrosoftDocs/mcp

Official Microsoft Learn MCP Server and CLI tool – powering LLMs and AI agents with real-time, trusted Microsoft docs & code samples.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Express Vite npm

GitHub topics

#ai #ai-agents #cli #copilot #documentation #learn-cli

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-06-09
History: 7 history points
License: CC-BY-4.0
Issues: 13 open

1,876

stars

Forks: 243
Commits: 81 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

thomvaill/log4brains

✍️ Architecture Decision Records (ADR) management and publication tool

Stack

TypeScript Next.js React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#adr #architecture #architecture-decision-record #architecture-decision-records #developer-tools #docs-as-code

Updated: 2024-12-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-15
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 57 open

1,598

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 149 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Mermade/widdershins

OpenAPI / Swagger, AsyncAPI & Semoasa definitions to (re)Slate compatible markdown

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#api #asyncapi #documentation #openapi #openapi3 #semoasa

Updated: 2024-06-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-05
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 89 open

1,583

stars

Forks: 317
Commits: 741 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

opticdev/optic

OpenAPI linting, diffing and testing. Optic helps prevent breaking changes, publish accurate documentation and improve the design of your APIs.

Archived

Stack

TypeScript React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#api-documentation #api-linter #apis #documentation #openapi #openapi3

Updated: 2026-01-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-10-22
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

1,533

stars

Forks: 96
Commits: 3,786 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

konfig-dev/konfig

SDK & API Docs Generator. Sunset as of December 2024

Stack

TypeScript Android Django Express FastAPI Bun Composer .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#api #documentation #sdks

Updated: 2024-12-25
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2022-11-12
History: 42 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

1,530

stars

Forks: 378
Commits: 3,830 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

raunofreiberg/ui-playbook

The documented collection of UI components 🤓

Stack

TypeScript Next.js React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#components #documentation #playbook #ui

Updated: 2023-01-06
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2020-07-08
History: 40 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

1,427

stars

Forks: 85
Commits: 143 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ehmicky/cross-platform-node-guide

📗 How to write cross-platform Node.js code

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#api #cli #code-quality #cross-platform #documentation #encoding

Updated: 2025-05-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-21
History: 1 history point
License: CC-BY-4.0
Issues: 0 open

1,424

stars

Forks: 75
Commits: 870 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

AniList/docs

AniList API documentation

Stack

TypeScript Vite Vue Bun npm

GitHub topics

#anichart #anilist #anime #api #documentation #graphql

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-23
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

1,330

stars

Forks: 80
Commits: 107 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

perber/leafwiki

LeafWiki - Self-hosted wiki. Single Go binary, SQLite, Markdown on disk. No external database required.

AI dev

Stack

Go Gin React Tailwind CSS Vite Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#docker #documentation #file-based #flat-file #go #knowledge-base

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-03-25
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

1,188

stars

Forks: 93
Commits: 1,336 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

JKHeadley/rest-hapi

🚀 A RESTful API generator for Node.js

Stack

JavaScript Express React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#api #audit-log #crud #crud-api #crud-generator #documentation

Updated: 2023-03-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-09-09
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 76 open

1,181

stars

Forks: 155
Commits: 1,243 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ruby-grape/grape-swagger

Add OAPI/swagger v2.0 compliant documentation to your grape API

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#api #documentation #grape #oapi #ruby #swagger

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 133 open

1,101

stars

Forks: 478
Commits: 1,300 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

brufdev/many-notes

Markdown note-taking web application designed for simplicity

Stack

PHP Laravel Tailwind CSS Vite Vue Composer npm

GitHub topics

#collaboration #docker #documentation #knowledge-base #markdown #note-taking

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-07-09
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

1,092

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 964 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

AlmanacCode/codealmanac

A codebase wiki for AI coding agents. Captures what the code can't say: decisions, flows, invariants, gotchas.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Express FastAPI pytest Starlette npm pip uv

GitHub topics

#ai #claude #cli #codebase #codex #coding-agents

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2026-04-16
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 54 open

997

stars

Forks: 73
Commits: 843 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

timothycrosley/portray

Your Project with Great Documentation.

Stack

Python pytest Tornado pip Poetry

GitHub topics

#command-line #documentation #html #http #hug #mkdocs

Updated: 2023-09-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-21
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

861

stars

Forks: 68
Commits: 266 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

zalando/zalando-howto-open-source

Open Source guidance from Zalando, Europe's largest online fashion platform

Archived

GitHub topics

#company-culture #documentation #guidelines #howto #innersource #product-design

Updated: 2018-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-25
History: 3 history points
License: CC-BY-4.0
Issues: 2 open

805

stars

Forks: 133
Commits: 235 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dec0dOS/amazing-github-template

🚀 Useful README.md, LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING.md, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, SECURITY.md, GitHub Issues, Pull Requests and Actions templates to jumpstart your projects.

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#bug-tracker #code-of-conduct #code-of-conduct-template #code-scanning #docs #docs-generator

Updated: 2024-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-06-10
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

711

stars

Forks: 258
Commits: 25 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

econchick/interrogate

Explain yourself! Interrogate a codebase for docstring coverage.

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#code-quality #coverage #documentation #hacktoberfest #python

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2020-04-24
History: 37 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 42 open

676

stars

Forks: 55
Commits: 243 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jobindjohn/obsidian-publish-mkdocs

A Template to Publish Obsidian/Foam Notes on Github Pages (uses MkDocs)

GitHub topics

#digital-garden #documentation #foam #foam-workspace #gh-pages #github-pages

Updated: 2026-02-12
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2021-04-01
History: 40 history points
License: CC0-1.0
Issues: 17 open

652

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 43 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Revadike/InternalSteamWebAPI

Documenting the unofficial and internal Steam Web API

Stack

HTML npm

GitHub topics

#api #api-docs #api-documentation #docs #documentation #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2022-03-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-07
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

649

stars

Forks: 27
Commits: 32 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

leomoon-studios/wiki-go

A modern, feature-rich, databaseless flat-file wiki platform built with Go.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#access-control #collaboration #docker #documentation #file-based-storage #flat-file-wiki

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-03-11
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 33 open

620

stars

Forks: 53
Commits: 465 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

typemill/typemill

Typemill is a flat-file CMS based on Markdown and designed for informational websites like documentation, manuals, and handbooks.

Stack

JavaScript Symfony Tailwind CSS Composer npm

GitHub topics

#cms #docs #documentation #documentation-tool #ebooks #epub-generation

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-04-14
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 51 open

619

stars

Forks: 76
Commits: 1,063 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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