Doctave Studio 2.0 Beta: The editor for technical writing and docs-as-code

We’re excited to announce that Doctave Studio 2.0 is now available in public beta! Doctave Studio is a new editor for technical writing and docs-as-code, and we’re excited to share it with you.

Want to see it in action? Here’s a quick introductory video of Doctave Studio 2.0:

Why build a new editor?

One of the biggest issues with docs-as-code is inconsistent tooling. While there are great tools out there (like Vale), it’s really hard to create a great authoring environment for docs-as-code. Getting spell check, broken links checking, auto-complete, and more configured is often too complex or time consuming, that lots of authors live without these tools.

This problem is compounded when you have multiple authors collaborating on the same documentation. One will have a spell checker configured, one will have auto-complete configured, another doesn’t have a broken links checker. The lack of a common authoring system causes friction, confusion, and ultimately raises the barrier for contributions.

And after all that, you still need to set up these same checks in your CI/CD pipeline!

This is what we set out to solve with Doctave Studio 2.0.

We’ve already made it easy to host, version, and review docs-as-code projects with our existing product. Now we’re taking the next logical step and improving the docs-as-code authoring experience.

What’s in the Doctave Studio 2.0 beta?

Today we’re launching Doctave Studio 2.0 into beta with a few key features:

• A new, modern editor with a focus on the authoring experience
• Real-time previews of your content as you type (Markdown and OpenAPI!)
• Powerful auto-complete for your links, assets, and components
• Great error-reporting inline in your Markdown

Let’s see some of these in action!

Real-time previews

The right-side panel in Doctave Studio is dedicated to a real-time preview window. It shows you what your content will look like once published, and it’s updated in real-time as you make changes.