Awesome Reference Tools [](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)

July 14, 2017 · View on GitHub

A curated list of documentation reference tools

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

You may also be intersted in another documentation focused list called beautiful docs

tldr - a collection of simplified and community-driven man pages http://tldr-pages.github.io/
caniuse-cmd - A caniuse command line tool!
howdoi - instant coding answers via the command line
how2 - Stackoverflow from the terminal
stackit - Smart StackOverflow queries from the command line
bro - A CLI to interact with bropages.org http://bropages.org
dasht - Search API docs offline, in your terminal or browser https://sunaku.github.io/dasht
mdn-cli - Command-line utility for Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) https://developer.mozilla.org
readme - Retrieve a node module's readme from the command line, and pipe it into less
manpm - Shows the relevant part of NPM module's README file right in your terminal
npm-man - Open any package readme as a man page
man-n - View npm package READMEs with man(1)
cwiki - Command line Wikipedia searching!
translate-shell - Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc. https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell
Shiki - Wikipedia 🌐 on your Terminal

devdocs - combines API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface
overapi - Collecting All Cheat Sheets
mozilla developer network - Shared knowledge for the Open Web
SyntaxDB - Allows users to look up syntax for programming languages
SourceGraph - A fast, global, semantic code search and cross-reference engine

Sourcegraph for Github - Browse and search code on GitHub like an IDE, with jump-to-definition, doc tooltips, and semantic search

dash - Dash gives your Mac instant offline access to 150+ API documentation sets
zest - Documentation Browser. Offline search tool for developers.