Create beautiful docs with Markdown & Vue components

🚀 Quick Start

Create a new documentation project in seconds:

# Create a new project
npx create-docus my-docs
# Or create with i18n template for multi-language docs
npx create-docus my-docs -t i18n
# Navigate to your projectcd my-docs
# Start development server
npm run dev

That's it! Your documentation site will be running at http://localhost:3000

🎯 What it creates

The CLI scaffolds a complete documentation project with:

• ✨ Beautiful Design - Clean, modern documentation theme
• 📱 Responsive - Mobile-first responsive design
• 🌙 Dark Mode - Built-in dark/light mode support
• 🌍 Internationalization - Native i18n support for multi-language docs
• 🔍 Search - Full-text search functionality
• 📝 Markdown Enhanced - Extended markdown with custom components
• 🎨 Customizable - Easy theming and brand customization
• ⚡ Fast - Optimized for performance with Nuxt 4
• 🔧 TypeScript - Full TypeScript support

Learn more on the Docus documentation.

📁 Project Structure

Generated project

my-docs/
├── content/ # Your markdown content
│ ├── index.md # Homepage
│ └── docs/ # Documentation pages
├── public/ # Static assets
└── package.json # Dependencies and scripts

Optional files and folders

Docus uses a layer system, you can go further and use any feature or file of a classical Nuxt project:

my-docs/
├── app.config.ts # App configuration
├── nuxt.config.ts # Nuxt configuration (add extra modules, components, etc.)
├── app/ # App directory
│ ├── components/ # Components (add your own components)
│ ├── layouts/ # Layouts (add your own layouts)
│ └── pages/ # Pages (add your own pages)
└── server/ # Server-side code (add your own server-side code)

/content folder structure

Single language structure:

content/
├── index.md
├── getting-started.md
└── guide/
├── introduction.md
└── configuration.md

Multi-language structure (with i18n):

content/
├── en/
│ ├── index.md
│ └── guide/
│ └── introduction.md
└── fr/
├── index.md
└── guide/
└── introduction.md

⚡ Built with

Your project comes pre-configured with the best of the Nuxt ecosystem:

• Nuxt 4 - The web framework
• Nuxt Content - File-based CMS
• Nuxt UI - UI components
• Nuxt Image - Optimized images
• Tailwind CSS 4 - Utility-first CSS
• Docus Layer - Documentation theme
• Nuxt i18n - Internationalization

📖 Documentation

For detailed documentation on customizing your Docus project, visit the Docus Documentation

🛠️ Development

This repository contains the CLI tool source code.

Local Development

To contribute to the CLI tool:

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/nuxt-content/docus
# Install dependencies
pnpm install
# Run the dev server to run the docus docs
pnpm run dev

Package Structure

This is a monorepo containing:

• /cli - CLI tool (create-docus)
• /layer - Docus Nuxt layer (docus)
• /docs - Official documentation
• /.starters - Starters project

📄 License

Published under the MIT license.

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Docus has been entirely rewritten from scratch and is inspired from undocs made by @pi0 💚