--- title: Build Beautiful Documentation Websites with Docusaurus description: Docusaurus is an easy-to-use documentation site generator powered by React and uses Markdown to write docs. You can easily customize the documentation sidebar... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/build-beautiful-documentation-websites-with-docusaurus-gpuokmi9n twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Build Beautiful Documentation Websites with Docusaurus | daily.dev og:description: Docusaurus is an easy-to-use documentation site generator powered by React and uses Markdown to write docs. You can easily customize the documentation sidebar... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/build-beautiful-documentation-websites-with-docusaurus-gpuokmi9n og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GpUoKmI9N.png og:image:alt: Build Beautiful Documentation Websites with Docusaurus og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Build Beautiful Documentation Websites with Docusaurus **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · 4 min read · 26 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Docusaurus is an easy-to-use documentation site generator powered by React and uses Markdown to write docs. You can easily customize the documentation sidebar for your own documentation. The default sidebar is someSidebar but you can change the values in sidebar.js to create your own. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@akhilrob2** · 2 upvotes > This is so easy and helpful! > > > ps: the command to install has been updated to 'npx @docusaurus/init@latest latest [name] classic' **@neeraj1005** · 0 upvotes > wow! nice I will check this...for documentation... --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/build-beautiful-documentation-websites-with-docusaurus-gpuokmi9n) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Build Beautiful Documentation Websites with Docusaurus","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/build-beautiful-documentation-websites-with-docusaurus-gpuokmi9n","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/build-beautiful-documentation-websites-with-docusaurus-gpuokmi9n"},"datePublished":"2020-12-04T00:12:22.851Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"Docusaurus is an easy-to-use documentation site generator powered by React and uses Markdown to write docs. 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