Introduction

A minimal docs template built with Eleventy, Basecoat, and Tailwind.

Why ReallySimpleDocs?

There are plenty of existing solutions to create documentation websites: Mintlify, Fumadocs, Docusaurus, MkDocs... So why create another one?

I wanted something that was fast, modern, simple, and good-looking. In particular, I did not want any React.

So I built ReallySimpleDocs with 11ty and Basecoat (Tailwind-based). You get vanilla HTML and CSS, with a tiny bit of JS. And it uses the same design system as shadcn/ui.

Key features

  • Fast: 11ty is one of the fastest site generators, usually only second to Hugo.
  • Standard and Reliable: It's all vanilla CSS, JS and HTML. No complex frameworks with hydration errors.
  • Git-based with a user-friendly CMS: All of your content lives in a GitHub repo. And if you need a user-friendly interface for your teammates to edit the content, just use Pages CMS.
  • Markdown + Nunjucks: Simple Markdown YAML frontmatter, with the convenience of Nunjucks templating if you need more advance features (e.g. loading Lucide icons).
  • LLM-friendly: Auto-generated llms.txt, llms-full.txt, and per-page /*.md exports for LLMs.
  • 100% free and open source: I have nothing to sell. No hosting plan, no advanced features. You can host it for free on Cloudflare Pages.

How can I help?

ReallySimpleDocs is 100% open source and free.