Comparing Docusaurus and Starlight and why we made the switch

I am Philip—an engineer working at Glasskube. We are building an Open Source control plane for self-managed, BYOC, and on-prem deployments. Everything you need to distribute applications to self-managed customers out of the box is called Distr ( github.com/glasskube/distr ). We previously built all our technical documentation—including this website—with Docusaurus. We generally liked using a static page generator and having all content fully Open Source on GitHub, so everyone can create a pull request if they find a typo or want to improve our docs. But for Distr, we decided to switch to Starlight. In this blog post, we will compare Docusaurus and Starlight and explain why we made the switch. Additionally, we will share how we structured our technical documentation and what we learned along the way. This post is actually the last piece of the Distr launch week. Up until now, we launched: Read all about the Distr launch week here: #distr-launch-week . Coming back to the original to ... Read full article.