Doks

Modern Documentation Theme

Doks is a Hugo theme for building secure, fast, and SEO-ready documentation websites, which you can easily update and customize.

Demo

doks.netlify.app

Why Doks?

Nine main reasons why you should use Doks:

Security aware. Get A+ scores on Mozilla Observatory out of the box. Easily change the default Security Headers to suit your needs.
Fast by default. Get 100 scores on Google Lighthouse by default. Doks removes unused css, prefetches links, and lazy loads images.
SEO-ready. Use sensible defaults for structured data, open graph, and Twitter cards. Or easily change the SEO settings to your liking.
Development tools. Code with confidence. Check styles, scripts, and markdown for errors and fix automatically or manually.
Bootstrap framework. Build robust, flexible, and intuitive websites with Bootstrap 5. Easily customize your Doks site with the source Sass files.
Netlify-ready. Deploy to Netlify with sensible defaults. Easily use Netlify Functions, Netlify Redirects, and Netlify Headers.
Full text search. Search your Doks site with FlexSearch. Easily customize index settings and search options to your liking.
Page layouts. Build pages with a landing page, blog, or documentation layout. Add custom sections and components to suit your needs.
Dark mode. Switch to a low-light UI with the click of a button. Change colors with variables to match your branding.

Other features

Multilingual and i18n support
Versioning documentation support
KaTeX math typesetting
Mermaid diagrams and visualization
highlight.js syntax highlighting

Requirements

Git — latest source release
Node.js — latest LTS version or newer

Why Node.js?

Doks uses npm (included with Node.js) to centralize dependency management, making it easy to update resources, build tooling, plugins, and build scripts.

Get started

Start a new Doks project in three steps:

1. Create a new site

Doks is available as a child theme and a starter theme.

Child theme

Intended for novice to intermediate users
Intended for minor customizations
Easily update npm packages — including Doks

git clone https://github.com/h-enk/doks-child-theme.git my-doks-site && cd my-doks-site

Starter theme

Intended for intermediate to advanced users
Intended for major customizations
Easily update npm packages

git clone https://github.com/h-enk/doks.git my-doks-site && cd my-doks-site

Help me choose

Not sure which one is for you? Pick the child theme.

2. Install dependencies

npm install

3. Start development server

npm run start

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