Re:DevDocs API Documentation
by ngrilly on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:08AM
(#15516359)
For the record, here is DevDocs answer on Twitter:
There were technical reasons in the past [1] but not anymore. Should be able to add those. Feel free to open GitHub issues so I don't forget.
[1] Non API entries are harder to index (need unique names); for a while I wanted to keep the app focused to API docs; and the scraping framework used to only support one root URL per doc (most docs host guides/manual on a different domain than API docs).
There were technical reasons in the past [1] but not anymore. Should be able to add those. Feel free to open GitHub issues so I don't forget.
[1] Non API entries are harder to index (need unique names); for a while I wanted to keep the app focused to API docs; and the scraping framework used to only support one root URL per doc (most docs host guides/manual on a different domain than API docs).
https://twitter.com/ngrilly/status/921296476692779008