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Don't forget you can use https://devdocs.io/ https://devdocs.io/ too which also searches MDN and store offline. The two are a great pair.

y4mi 9y ago
cool, i didn't know that site. wonderful ux how's the content added though? its missing so many libraries i use...
- iMerNibor 9y ago
  Seems to be scraping public documentation pages https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/#scraper https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/#scraper
- muhic 9y ago
  They have a Trello board where you can suggest and vote on additions. https://trello.com/b/6BmTulfx/devdocs-documentation https://trello.com/b/6BmTulfx/devdocs-documentation
mikodin 9y ago
Yeah wow thanks! This is great
type0 9y ago
No Elm there?
- mtmail 9y ago
  230+ sets of documentation already work. You can vote for your favorite language here: https://trello.com/b/6BmTulfx/devdocs-documentation https://trello.com/b/6BmTulfx/devdocs-documentation
mshenfield 9y ago
Was on a plane ride this weekend and was thinking how I needed to re-install Dash so I could have an offline docs viewer. Personally like the web format much better, thanks!
CoryG89 9y ago
While we're on MDN related awesomeness, shameless plug: Back when I was in school, I made this Chrome extension which allows you to jump directly from the address bar to the MDN page you want: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mdnjump/mfjekjhknpjgpgchoghlemhgchpmkiha https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mdnjump/mfjekjhknp...
- 1k2ka 9y ago
  If you use DuckDuckGo as your standard search engine you can also prepend "!mdn" to your search query to search MDN. This also works with any website wich supports search I think. Other good ones include "!hoogle", "!hn", "!yt", "!g", and the list goes on.
  - r3bl 9y ago
    FYI, if you're already shortening the so-called "bangs", you could use "!h" for Haskell. :) Worth pointing out: submitting bang ideas is very, very trivial, but the whole process may last months. Last time I've read about someone complaining about a long bang, I've submitted "!gw" as a shorter version of searching Gentoo's Wiki and it became a thing a couple of days ago. This is maybe fifth or sixth bang that I've submitted to them via https://duckduckgo.com/newbang https://duckduckgo.com/newbang.
  - CoryG89 9y ago
    This will bring you to a search result page, yes? My ext combines Google's I'm Feeling Lucky to jump straight to the page for the top result, which I find works 99% of the time I'm looking for something on MDN.
yujinyuz 9y ago
thanks for this one!
lin-H 9y ago
Thanks for sharing, this is awesome
oevi 9y ago
There is also mdn.io which can be used as shortcut in every browser like this (for a search for 'await'): http://mdn.io/await http://mdn.io/await
- fyrstenberg 9y ago
  It seems neat on the surface but it also seem to involve two redirects, first one to google.com (which is not obvious and personally not something I would like), and then to MDN. It would be cool if it linked directly to the page on MDN or showed the content directly within the page. And the second time I clicked I was met with this message, not mdn.io's fault but nonetheless (i.e. "google police" - not sure what they mean with "unusual activity", there is hardly any at the moment - maybe not enough? :) or maybe I just got a busy vpn exit point): https://imgur.com/itn48dZ https://imgur.com/itn48dZ
  - myfonj 9y ago
    Yup, that site seems to be basically redirector to Google redirector [1]. You can get the very same effect like DuckDuckGo keyword search but with "just the last redirect" with vanilla browser bookmark [2] with `%s` interpolation: https://www.google.com/search?btnI&q=%s%20site%3Adeveloper.mozilla.org [1] https://github.com/lazd/mdn.io https://github.com/lazd/mdn.io [2] https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html - old page about feature in Firefox (currently the same works in Google Chrome as well). Amusing that the this `btnI` search is in the second example there.
- Freak_NL 9y ago
  If you set up your browser's default search engine as DuckDuckGo, this works from the location bar (at least in Firefox): !mdn await This will perform a query to DuckDuckGo (the non-tracking search engine) first, and automatically redirect to MDN. No need for extra add-ons; this is one of the standard set of 'bangs' DuckDuckGo provides.
  - shpx 9y ago
sambf 9y ago
I'm using it as my primary source of documentation since a couple of years. Never been disappointed, and it saves a lot of clicks.
nmbr213 9y ago
Here's an alternative if you would prefer a desktop app https://zealdocs.org/ https://zealdocs.org/

y4mi 9y ago

cool, i didn't know that site. wonderful ux how's the content added though? its missing so many libraries i use...

iMerNibor 9y ago
Seems to be scraping public documentation pages https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/#scraper https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/#scraper
muhic 9y ago
They have a Trello board where you can suggest and vote on additions. https://trello.com/b/6BmTulfx/devdocs-documentation https://trello.com/b/6BmTulfx/devdocs-documentation

mikodin 9y ago

Yeah wow thanks! This is great

type0 9y ago

No Elm there?

mtmail 9y ago
230+ sets of documentation already work. You can vote for your favorite language here: https://trello.com/b/6BmTulfx/devdocs-documentation https://trello.com/b/6BmTulfx/devdocs-documentation

mshenfield 9y ago

Was on a plane ride this weekend and was thinking how I needed to re-install Dash so I could have an offline docs viewer. Personally like the web format much better, thanks!

CoryG89 9y ago

While we're on MDN related awesomeness, shameless plug: Back when I was in school, I made this Chrome extension which allows you to jump directly from the address bar to the MDN page you want: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mdnjump/mfjekjhknpjgpgchoghlemhgchpmkiha https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mdnjump/mfjekjhknp...

1k2ka 9y ago
If you use DuckDuckGo as your standard search engine you can also prepend "!mdn" to your search query to search MDN. This also works with any website wich supports search I think. Other good ones include "!hoogle", "!hn", "!yt", "!g", and the list goes on.
- r3bl 9y ago
  FYI, if you're already shortening the so-called "bangs", you could use "!h" for Haskell. :) Worth pointing out: submitting bang ideas is very, very trivial, but the whole process may last months. Last time I've read about someone complaining about a long bang, I've submitted "!gw" as a shorter version of searching Gentoo's Wiki and it became a thing a couple of days ago. This is maybe fifth or sixth bang that I've submitted to them via https://duckduckgo.com/newbang https://duckduckgo.com/newbang.
- CoryG89 9y ago
  This will bring you to a search result page, yes? My ext combines Google's I'm Feeling Lucky to jump straight to the page for the top result, which I find works 99% of the time I'm looking for something on MDN.

yujinyuz 9y ago

thanks for this one!

lin-H 9y ago

Thanks for sharing, this is awesome

oevi 9y ago

There is also mdn.io which can be used as shortcut in every browser like this (for a search for 'await'): http://mdn.io/await http://mdn.io/await

fyrstenberg 9y ago
It seems neat on the surface but it also seem to involve two redirects, first one to google.com (which is not obvious and personally not something I would like), and then to MDN. It would be cool if it linked directly to the page on MDN or showed the content directly within the page. And the second time I clicked I was met with this message, not mdn.io's fault but nonetheless (i.e. "google police" - not sure what they mean with "unusual activity", there is hardly any at the moment - maybe not enough? :) or maybe I just got a busy vpn exit point): https://imgur.com/itn48dZ https://imgur.com/itn48dZ
- myfonj 9y ago
  Yup, that site seems to be basically redirector to Google redirector [1]. You can get the very same effect like DuckDuckGo keyword search but with "just the last redirect" with vanilla browser bookmark [2] with `%s` interpolation: https://www.google.com/search?btnI&q=%s%20site%3Adeveloper.mozilla.org [1] https://github.com/lazd/mdn.io https://github.com/lazd/mdn.io [2] https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html https://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html - old page about feature in Firefox (currently the same works in Google Chrome as well). Amusing that the this `btnI` search is in the second example there.
Freak_NL 9y ago
If you set up your browser's default search engine as DuckDuckGo, this works from the location bar (at least in Firefox): !mdn await This will perform a query to DuckDuckGo (the non-tracking search engine) first, and automatically redirect to MDN. No need for extra add-ons; this is one of the standard set of 'bangs' DuckDuckGo provides.
- shpx 9y ago

sambf 9y ago

I'm using it as my primary source of documentation since a couple of years. Never been disappointed, and it saves a lot of clicks.

nmbr213 9y ago

Here's an alternative if you would prefer a desktop app https://zealdocs.org/ https://zealdocs.org/