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6 tools

Meta Open Source / React team · Documentation tooling

React-based static site generator from Meta for documentation sites with MDX content, versioning, localization and a plugin architecture

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

draw.io

draw.io AG / JGraph Ltd · Design & prototyping

Free diagramming editor (formerly diagrams.net) for flowcharts, network, UML and architecture diagrams, available as web app, desktop app and integrations

Apache-2.0FreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Google Scholar

Google (Chrome DevTools team) · Literature discovery & review

Free scholarly search engine from Google that indexes articles, theses, books and court opinions with citation counts and author profiles

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

Mermaid

Mermaid project (Knut Sveidqvist and contributors) · Design & prototyping

JavaScript library that renders flowcharts, sequence, class, state, ER, Gantt and other diagrams from a Markdown-like text syntax

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

MkDocs

MkDocs project (Tom Christie and contributors) · Documentation tooling

Python static site generator for project documentation that builds a navigable site from Markdown files and a single YAML configuration

BSD-2-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Sphinx

Sphinx team · Documentation tooling

Python documentation generator using reStructuredText or MyST Markdown with cross-referencing, API autodoc and output to HTML, PDF via LaTeX, ePub and man pages