# docco

> The Quick and Dirty Literate Programming Documentation Generator

Latest version **0.9.2** (published 2025-03-27) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install docco
pnpm add docco
yarn add docco
bun add docco
```

Provides the command `docco`.

## Health

**Score 35/100 (D)** — status: stable.

Positive: no vulnerabilities.

Warnings: low downloads; no types; no esm support; pre 1.0.

Negative: stale.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.9.2 |
| Published | 2025-03-27 |
| First published | 2011-02-19 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | none |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Node | >=0.2.0 |
| Dependencies | 5 |
| Unpacked size | 1.4 MB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 3572 |
| Author | Jeremy Ashkenas |
| Maintainers | jashkenas, jgonggrijp |
| Keywords | documentation, docs, generator, literate, coffeescript |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/docco
- Repository: https://github.com/jashkenas/docco
- Homepage: https://github.com/jashkenas/docco#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/jashkenas/docco/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/docco

## Dependencies (5)

- [marked](https://npm.io/package/marked.md) ~ 4.0.3
- [fs-extra](https://npm.io/package/fs-extra.md) ~ 10.0.0
- [commander](https://npm.io/package/commander.md) ~ 8.3.0
- [underscore](https://npm.io/package/underscore.md) ~ 1.13.1
- [highlight.js](https://npm.io/package/highlight.js.md) ~ 11.3.1

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## Recent versions

- 0.9.2 (latest) — 2025-03-27
- 0.7.0 (stable) — 2015-02-03
- 0.9.1 — 2021-11-16
- 0.9.0 — 2021-11-16
- 0.8.1 — 2021-02-03
- 0.8.0 — 2017-12-19
- 0.6.3 — 2014-02-03
- 0.6.2 — 2013-03-18
- 0.6.1 — 2013-03-13
- 0.6.0 — 2013-03-11
- 0.5.0 — 2013-03-11
- 0.4.0 — 2012-08-22
- 0.3.0 — 2011-02-19
- 0.2.0 — 2011-02-19

## README

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Docco is a quick-and-dirty, hundred-line-long, literate-programming-style
documentation generator. For more information, see:

http://ashkenas.com/docco/

Installation:

  sudo npm install -g docco

Usage: docco [options] FILES

  Options:

    -h, --help             output usage information
    -V, --version          output the version number
    -l, --layout [layout]  choose a built-in layouts (parallel, linear)
    -c, --css [file]       use a custom css file
    -o, --output [path]    use a custom output path
    -t, --template [file]  use a custom .jst template
    -e, --extension [ext]  use the given file extension for all inputs
    -L, --languages [file] use a custom languages.json
    -m, --marked [file]    use custom marked options

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