godoku

A fast, zero-dependency static site generator for documentation and API references, built in Go.

Godoku takes your Markdown files and OpenAPI v3 specs and generates a beautiful, dark-themed documentation site — complete with sidebar navigation, syntax highlighting, and an interactive API playground.

Features

• Markdown-powered — Write docs in Markdown with GFM extensions (tables, task lists, strikethrough, autolinks)
• OpenAPI v3 — Auto-discover specs from apis/ and generate full API reference pages with $ref resolution
• API Playground — Interactive request builder on every endpoint page
• Nested sections — Subdirectories become sidebar groups with customizable ordering
• Nav ordering — Control page order with nav lists in _index.md or order frontmatter
• Prev/Next navigation — Automatic page-to-page links across sections and groups
• Dev server — Live rebuild on file changes with godoku serve -w
• Single binary — No runtime dependencies, templates and assets are embedded
• Fast — Builds in milliseconds

Quick Start

# Install
go install github.com/omurilo/godoku/cmd/godoku@latest

# Create a new project
mkdir my-docs && cd my-docs
godoku init .

# Start the dev server
godoku serve -w

Open http://localhost:3000 to see your site.

Project Structure

my-docs/
├── apis/                    # OpenAPI specs (auto-discovered)
│   └── openapi.yaml
├── content/
│   ├── docs/                # /docs/* pages
│   │   ├── _index.md        # Section nav ordering
│   │   ├── getting-started.md
│   │   └── advanced/        # Sidebar group
│   │       ├── _index.md    # Group metadata & nav ordering
│   │       └── plugins.md
│   ├── guides/              # /guides/* pages
│   └── tutorials/           # /tutorials/* pages
└── godoku.yaml              # Site configuration

Configuration

title: My Documentation
description: Project docs and API reference
url: https://docs.example.com
language: en
redirect: /docs/getting-started

navigation:
  - label: Docs
    path: /docs
  - label: API
    path: /api

sections:
  docs: content/docs
  guides: content/guides
  tutorials: content/tutorials

CLI

Documentation

Full documentation is available at omurilo.github.io/godoku.

License

MIT