LuaDoc Alternatives

LuaDoc is described as 'Documentation Generator Tool for the Lua language' and is a documentation generator in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to LuaDoc for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and Microsoft Visual Studio apps. The best LuaDoc alternative is Doxygen, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LuaDoc are MkDocs, VitePress, Sphinx and swagger.io.

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    Codex is a simple file-based Markdown documentation platform built on top of Laravel. It's completely customizable and dead simple to use to create beautiful documentation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. PHP documentation generator based on docblock parsing.

    phpDocumentor 2, result of the merge between the old phpDocumentor and DocBlox , sometimes referred to as phpdoc or phpdocu, is the current standard auto-documentation tool for the php la.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. ApiGen icon
     3 likes

    ApiGen is the tool for creating professional API documentation from PHP source code, similar to phpDocumentor 2 .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. DoxyS icon
     2 likes

    DoxyS is a code documentation tool for C++/C. DoxyS strives to yield a very professional looking output, presenting the the code in a structured easy to navigate set of HTML pages. Easy to use: Just navigate to the root of your code directory and type doxys.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. CppDoc icon
     1 like

    CppDoc generates HTML documentation for C++ classes, based on your source code and special comments embedded within it. It can produce output that is very similar to the output of Javadoc, and it supports Javadoc tags such as @see, @return , etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. dAPI icon
     1 like

    Node.js/JavaScript Dojo API viewer and static API viewer document generator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7.  3 likes

    Simplify your XML Comments! GhostDoc is a Visual Studio extension that automatically generates XML documentation comments for methods and properties based on their type, parameters, name, and other contextual information.

    3 GhostDoc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • C++
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
     
  8. Natural Docs icon
     1 like

    Natural Docs is an open-source documentation generator for multiple programming languages. You document your code in a natural syntax that reads like plain English. Natural Docs then scans your code and builds high-quality HTML documentation from it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Perl
     
  9.  1 like

    Javadoc is a tool from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation in HTML format from doc comments in source code.

    18 Javadoc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. MireDot icon
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    At Qmino (the company that creates Miredot), we've written hundreds of REST APIs. We design and redesign until our APIs are an joy to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11.  Like

    LuaDox is an API documentation generator for Lua inspired by (though not fully compatible with) LDoc.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. Shins icon
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    Shins (Shins Is Not Slate) is a port of Slate API Docs Generator to JavaScript / Node.js , beautiful static documentation for your API.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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