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DevDocs.io Recommendations

This cluster focuses on users highly recommending devdocs.io as a fast, clean, ad-free, and offline-capable alternative to documentation sites like MDN. Discussions highlight its superior search, extensive coverage, and open-source nature for developer reference needs.

📉 Falling 0.3x Web Development
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Sample Comments

evmar • Mar 22, 2020 • View on HN

devdocs.io is a dramatically faster alternative to MDN, with the same content.

peternicky • May 3, 2016 • View on HN

DevDocs is great, highly recommended!

have_faith • Feb 4, 2019 • View on HN

I would highly recommend devdocs.io for a cleaner, more extensive documentation reference with no ads and offline support.

fragmede • Aug 12, 2023 • View on HN

someplace like http://devdocs.io goes real far

glintik • May 31, 2023 • View on HN

Offline documentation browser for sad and unlucky developers without internet.

prashnts • Oct 5, 2016 • View on HN

I use `devdocs.io`. It's open source and works great!

fenwick67 • Feb 7, 2018 • View on HN

Mozilla's MDN is the only reliable place (outside of the w3c documents themselves) to get web documentation

ealhad • Oct 19, 2017 • View on HN

Definitely https://devdocs.io

vdm • Feb 7, 2024 • View on HN

https://devdocs.io

pits • Oct 5, 2016 • View on HN

Replying to myself:- https://zealdocs.org/ - https://devdocs.io/offline