Developer Experience
Docs-as-Code: Why Your Documentation Should Live in Git
The traditional approach to documentation (writing in Word docs, storing in Confluence, updating whenever someone remembers) is broken.
Stale documentation is worse than no documentation.
No documentation sends a developer to your support channel. Stale documentation sends them down a confident, wrong path, and the frustration when the example fails lands on your product, not on the doc.
The Docs-as-Code Workflow
Store documentation in version control. Your docs files sit alongside your source code. Every change is tracked, every version is recoverable, and every update goes through a pull request.
This changes documentation culture more than documentation tooling. When docs live in the repo, the PR that changes an endpoint can be blocked until it also changes the endpoint’s docs. Engineers review documentation the way they review code, in the same interface, with the same standards. Freshness stops depending on memory and starts depending on process.
Choosing Your Toolchain
Docusaurus is hard to beat for developer docs. MkDocs with Material theme is excellent for Python-heavy teams. Redocly and Stoplight generate interactive docs from your OpenAPI spec.
The honest advice: the platform matters less than the pipeline. Any of these tools, wired into CI so that merged docs deploy automatically, beats a beautiful platform that requires a manual publish step someone forgets.
How to Migrate Without Boiling the Ocean
Start small. Pick one section and migrate it to Markdown in your repo. Set up Docusaurus, wire it to CI/CD, and deploy. Once proven, migrate everything else.
The single-section pilot does two jobs. It surfaces the real friction (redirects, search, images, permissions) while the blast radius is small. And it gives the team a working example to point at when someone asks whether the migration is worth it. The answer, almost always, is the first time a docs fix ships in the same PR as the code fix.