Running DevDocs as an Electron app

[Mark Birbeck]

Really impressed with DevDocs!

I've been using Dash and Zeal for years but hadn't got round to installing either on my current laptop for some reason. I was about to do that this morning, and then I thought I'd do a quick search to see if anyone had made the docsets available separately from the apps.

And that's when I stumbled across DevDocs and it really is excellent work.

I thought I'd drop a note to the list because I'm running DevDocs on macOS inside an Electron app, which makes it nice and easy to manage. If anyone wants to do the same, just follow these steps:

1. Install the Sidewinder Viewer, which is an Electron app that makes it easy to load pages from a particular URL, without having to go through the hassle of creating a bespoke Electron app. Details are here:

  https://www.npmjs.com/package/sidewinder-viewer

2. Open DevDocs with the Sidewinder Viewer:

sidewinder https://devdocs.io

You'll now have an Electron app with DevDocs running inside.

As described in the Sidewinder docs you can also easily add an alias, such as:

function devdocs
{
  sidewinder https://devdocs.io
}

Thanks again for an excellent and well thought out app.

Regards,

Mark