---
title: "How to Build a Modern Documentation Site with VitePress"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-a-modern-documentation-site-with-vitepress-h-xqttlij
source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-modern-documentation-site-with-vitepress/
type: article
source: "freeCodeCamp"
author: "Victor Eke"
published: 2022-11-16T19:02:59.734Z
updated: 2022-11-16T19:02:59.649Z
tags: ["github", "css", "markdown", "vite"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 128
comments: 10
language: en
---

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# How to Build a Modern Documentation Site with VitePress

**[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · [@eke](https://daily.dev/eke) · 12 min read · 128 upvotes · 10 comments

## Summary

VitePress is a simple and performant static site generator built on top of Vite that lets you create docs in a matter of minutes. VitePress powers some popular documentation sites like Vuejs, Vitest, faker.js, and Vite itself.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-a-modern-documentation-site-with-vitepress/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@rotrixx** · 2 upvotes

> awesome!!

**@julianoccm** · 1 upvotes

> everything I was looking for!

**@rdev182** · 1 upvotes

> Great article!

**@timoyo93** · 1 upvotes

> will definitely give it a try 👀🔥

**@ibrahimraimi** · 1 upvotes

> I was having issues setting up  Docusaurus earlier this week. I will definitely give VitePress a try.
>
> Thank you Eke

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