Docus Default Starter

A beautiful, minimal starter for creating documentation with Docus

This is the default Docus starter template that provides everything you need to build beautiful documentation sites with Markdown and Vue components.

[!TIP] If you're looking for i18n support, check out the i18n starter.

✨ Features

• 🎨 Beautiful Design - Clean, modern documentation theme
• 📱 Responsive - Mobile-first responsive design
• 🌙 Dark Mode - Built-in dark/light mode support
• 🔍 Search - Full-text search functionality
• 📝 Markdown Enhanced - Extended markdown with custom components
• 🎨 Customizable - Easy theming and brand customization
• ⚡ Fast - Optimized for performance with Nuxt 4
• 🔧 TypeScript - Full TypeScript support

🚀 Quick Start

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# Install dependencies
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npm install
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# Start development server
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npm run dev

Your documentation site will be running at http://localhost:3000

📁 Project Structure

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my-docs/
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├── content/              # Your markdown content
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│   ├── index.md         # Homepage
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│   ├── 1.getting-started/  # Getting started section
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│   └── 2.essentials/    # Essential documentation
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├── public/              # Static assets
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└── package.json         # Dependencies and scripts

⚡ Built with

This starter comes pre-configured with:

• Nuxt 4 - The web framework
• Nuxt Content - File-based CMS
• Nuxt UI - UI components
• Nuxt Image - Optimized images
• Tailwind CSS 4 - Utility-first CSS
• Docus Layer - Documentation theme

📖 Documentation

For detailed documentation on customizing your Docus project, visit the Docus Documentation

🤖 AI Assistant Skill

Get started quickly with Docus by adding specialized knowledge to your AI assistant (Cursor, Claude, etc.):

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npx skills add nuxt-content/docus

This skill helps you create documentation faster by providing your AI assistant with best practices, MDC component usage, ready-to-use templates, writing guidelines, and configuration tips for Docus. Perfect for quickly scaffolding new documentation projects.

🚀 Deployment

Build for production:

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npm run build

The built files will be in the .output directory, ready for deployment to any hosting provider that supports Node.js.

📄 License

MIT License