Consistent frustration when searching for Meteor documentation

core
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As a developer, I am often searching for documentation of Meteor core features. Many times, I will follow links that have either been deprecated or simply end up rendering the top level documentation (despite having a specific section ID). This means I have to search a second time within the documentation, when the initial link or search result should have pointed me directly to the relevant section.

I have opened an issue on the Meteor issue tracker. My apologies if the issue is misguided, but this seems largely related to the use of a navigation frame (or similar method).

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You should try devdocs.io.
Once installed in your browser, it’s the fastest way to search (installed) documentation, imho.

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Thanks for sharing, this is really cool, i’ve just replaced about 5 pinned tabs with the one! I don’t know how they could do this programatically, must be some sort of custom crawler for each Docs site. Too bad it’s missing MongoDB docs…

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@vjau: That is awesome! :smile:

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Wow, thanks!! Never heard of that before!

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I use devdocs.io all the time, and it is fantastic. Meteor’s docs are okay, but the toggle for “full documentation” and simple documentation is a pain.

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One thing that you may have missed on docs.meteor.com - just start typing what you are looking for… Like template or something. Filters the docs down.

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Thanks for the suggestion :smiley:

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You could also have a look at https://zealdocs.org

It has search functionallity, is available offline and auto-updates docsets. Available for Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac. Looking at devdocs.io I found that it doesn’t has Jade whereas zeal/dash provides the Jade docset as well :slight_smile: