mkdocs-material is fine if you prefer Python to JS, but I personally very much dislike how it looks, and as everything else it uses a weird custom Markdown flavor where indentation is handled weirdly which can create edge-cases where for example a valid GFM list is not rendered properly by MkDocs.

+1 on Starlight, though, it is my go-to and I absolutely love it.

Mkdocs-material has been my go to for this use case. However, I once made a document website using MDbook(the thing that Rust uses for their own documentation and book), and have a lot of happy consumers.

Are there any good open source documentation chatbots that you can integrate into the search function of docusaurus? If you see commercial offerings like mintlify, they all come with a Q and A chatbot built-in. It’s not very hard to build, you just need to generate the RAG chunks at build-time but this is best implemented as part of the documentation software, rather than as a third party plugin since it heavily ties into the search feature.

+1! I'd love to know, too!

What makes starlight heavier? If anything its the opposite, it's not client side rendering pages like Docusaurus... https://starlight.astro.build/environmental-impact/

Likewise, I've been happy with Starlight and trust Astro products to be lightweight and efficient. I'm interested in knowing what makes it heavier

The comparisons-page clearly highlights that Docusaurus is way heavier. https://starlight.astro.build/environmental-impact/#comparis...