🆚 JSDoc vs. Sphinx
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About
JSDoc is an API documentation generator for 
JavaScript that generates 
HTML documentation from source code, similar to 
Javadoc or phpDocumentor.
It parses JSDoc annotations written by developers in source code comments, supports custom templates, runs as a 
Node.js command-line tool, and is supported by IDEs such as 
VS Code and 
Visual Studio.
Sphinx is an open-source documentation generator originally created for the Python ecosystem that converts reStructuredText and 
Markdown sources into structured technical documentation.
It supports cross-references, automatic API documentation for Python, 
C++, JS, and other software domains, theming, and deployments to 
Read the Docs, 
GitHub Pages, 
GitLab Pages, and 
Netlify.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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 3,827,502 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.