laravel.com documentation

@smarru As far as I know, the documentation is written by Taylor and the community; I don't think a package was used. AFAIK Jack McDade designed the site.

As for the API that was generated using Sami.

Checkout this repo, specifically the DocsController.

@deringer that doesn't generate the documentation, that's just a glorified TOC.

I see that the soruce is at https://github.com/laravel/docs can anyone please point me to how this gets build and deployed? Is it using mkdocs or Sphinx?

The fact they mention MkDocs means that they are indeed looking to automatically generate documentation (as a whole) not just the front page (table of contents).

Hello I made a french turorial on Laravel cache with Laravel documentation as example with a live online application. It may help...

I would like to mimic how larvel.com documentation on our website.

You can use a static site generator, like Jekyll.

Thank you all for all the insights, its very helpful. To clarify, we have a laravel based portal (https://seagrid.org/) and have styled the theme. For the documentation tab we currently take the users to a confluence wiki. Rather I would like to get the documents written in markdown and deployed as static html. Jekyll, mkdocs like tools help me go from markdown to html. The unknown to me is how to use the static header and footer so users do not feel they are in a different land for documentation.

Appreciating all the responses,

As with the Laravel docs, create a directory called docs and use a master template that includes your standard header and footer.

That part is the least complicated. :)

Jekyll, mkdocs like tools help me go from markdown to html.

Just FYI:

You can easily convert markdown to HTML without those tools, if you prefer. Just use a package like commonmark.