🆚 JSDoc vs. mdBook
Statistics for mdBook are still being collected and do not yet reflect its full market share.
mdBookType
Static site generator
Static site generator
About
JSDoc is an API documentation generator for 
JavaScript, similar to Javadoc or phpDocumentor.
mdBook is a 
Rust-based command-line tool that compiles 
Markdown files into navigable and searchable online books for documentation, tutorials, and technical guides.
It provides built-in search, color syntax highlighting via 
Highlight.js, multilingual books, theme customization, preprocessors and renderer plugins, automatic table of contents generation, and automated testing of Rust code samples.
Headquarters
Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Static Site Generators › Rank #33
Static Site Generators › Rank #17
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Total websites
Market share
Static Site Generators
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
United States
Serbia
China
Germany
Australia
France
Russia
Switzerland
Finland
Japan
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Software/Hardware
Games
Blogs/Wiki
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Docusaurus
GitBook
ReadMe
DocFX
Slate
Doxygen
HonKit🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,531,795 websites. However, data for mdBook is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.