Show HN: Zest – FOSS Docs Browser with DevDocs and Stack Overflow

http://zestdocs.org/

by jkozera • 10 years ago

42 8 10 years ago

zestdocs.org

randiLee• 10 years ago

This looks interesting.

manojlds• 10 years ago

Anyone knows enough to compare with Dash?

jkozera2• 10 years ago

I think this is going to have a different target audience. Dash includes tons of documentation from very diverse set of sources, including .NET and Apple docs. Zest supports only DevDocs and Stack Overflow. It is also open source and works on more platforms, so may be eventually better for people preferring FOSS.

Zest is also pretty much an experimental proof of concept at this point and thus far from being as polished as Dash.

However, I think full text search is a very cool feature which Dash is currently missing, which was the main factor which motivated me to go ahead and try implementing it.

idle_zealot• 10 years ago

I hope this eclipses Dash.

beagle3• 10 years ago

I was going to mention Zeal (a free Dash replacement), and then founds this from the Zest author[0]

Some people may know me as the original developer of Zeal, the Dash-inspired offline documentation browser for Linux and Windows.

[0] https://medium.com/@jerzy.kozera/from-zeal-devdocs-to-zest-m...

gravypod• 10 years ago

The local copy of StackOverflow is interesting.

Did they allow this/is this illegal? Is there any precedent for using forum data like this?

jkozera2• 10 years ago

Stack Overflow posts are CC-licensed and all the data is available at https://archive.org/details/stackexchange - this is where Zest downloads it from.

Dash also provides SO search, though only in titles (no full text search).

pkmishra• 10 years ago

Love it.

Show HN: Zest – FOSS Docs Browser with DevDocs and Stack Overflow

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