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Show HN: Zest – FOSS Docs Browser with DevDocs and Stack Overflow
- randiLee 11y agoThis looks interesting.
- manojlds 11y agoAnyone knows enough to compare with Dash?
- jkozera 11y agoI think this is going to have a different target audience. Dash includes tons of documentation from very diverse set of sources, including .NET and Apple docs. Zest supports only DevDocs and Stack Overflow. It is also open source and works on more platforms, so may be eventually better for people preferring FOSS. Zest is also pretty much an experimental proof of concept at this point and thus far from being as polished as Dash. However, I think full text search is a very cool feature which Dash is currently missing, which was the main factor which motivated me to go ahead and try implementing it.
- idle_zealot 11y agoI hope this eclipses Dash.
- beagle3 11y agoI was going to mention Zeal (a free Dash replacement), and then founds this from the Zest author[0] > Some people may know me as the original developer of Zeal, the Dash-inspired offline documentation browser for Linux and Windows. [0] https://medium.com/@jerzy.kozera/from-zeal-devdocs-to-zest-my-docs-journey-93fa4bf08a8f#.vpt3e2lg7 https://medium.com/@jerzy.kozera/from-zeal-devdocs-to-zest-m...
- gravypod 11y agoThe local copy of StackOverflow is interesting. Did they allow this/is this illegal? Is there any precedent for using forum data like this?
- jkozera 11y agoStack Overflow posts are CC-licensed and all the data is available at https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange - this is where Zest downloads it from. Dash also provides SO search, though only in titles (no full text search).
- pkmishra 11y agoLove it.