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title: Comparisons
description: How is Fumadocs different from other existing frameworks?
icon: GitCompareArrows
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## Philosophy

**Less Abstraction:** Fumadocs, unlike the other frameworks, expects you to write code and cooperate with the rest of your software.
While most frameworks are configured with a configuration file, they usually lack of flexibility when you attempt to complete something more advanced.
You can’t control how they render the page nor the internal logic. Fumadocs shows you how the app works, instead of a single configuration file.

**Next.js Fundamentals:** It gives you the utilities and a good-looking UI.
You are still using the features of Next.js App Router, configuring **Static Site Generation** same as a normal Next.js application.
There is nothing new for Next.js developers, you can use it with confidence.

For instance, in this docs, the cards of index pages are rendered dynamically.
Feel free to take a look at the source code of this documentation.

**Opinionated on UI:** The only thing Fumadocs UI (the default theme) offers is **User Interface**, it is opinionated on UI for the best mobile responsiveness and user experience.
The design is regularly updated, and we welcome feedback about the UI.

## Nextra

Fumadocs is highly inspired by Nextra. For example, the Routing Conventions. That is why
`meta.json` also exists in Fumadocs.

Nextra is more opinionated than Fumadocs. Fumadocs is accelerated by App Router. As a result, It provides many server-side functions, and you have to
configure things manually compared to simply editing a configuration file.

Fumadocs works great if you want more control over everything, such as
adding it to an existing codebase or implementing advanced routing.

### Feature Table

| Feature             | Fumadocs     | Nextra                    |
| ------------------- | ------------ | ------------------------- |
| Static Generation   | Yes          | Yes                       |
| Cached              | Yes          | Yes                       |
| Light/Dark Mode     | Yes          | Yes                       |
| Syntax Highlighting | Yes          | Yes                       |
| Table of Contents   | Yes          | Yes                       |
| Full-text Search    | Yes          | Yes                       |
| i18n                | Yes          | Yes                       |
| Last Git Edit Time  | Yes          | Yes                       |
| Page Icons          | Yes          | Yes, via `_meta.js` files |
| RSC                 | Yes          | Pages Router Only         |
| Remote Source       | Yes          | Yes                       |
| SEO                 | Via Metadata | Yes                       |
| Built-in Components | Yes          | Yes                       |
| RTL Layout          | Yes          | Yes                       |

### Additional Features

Features supported via 3rd party libraries like [TypeDoc](https://typedoc.org) will not be listed here.

| Feature                    | Fumadocs | Nextra |
| -------------------------- | -------- | ------ |
| OpenAPI Integration        | Yes      | No     |
| TypeScript Docs Generation | Yes      | No     |
| TypeScript Twoslash        | Yes      | Yes    |

## Mintlify

Mintlify is a documentation service, as compared to Fumadocs, it offers a free tier but isn't completely free and open source.

Fumadocs is not as powerful as Mintlify, for example, the OpenAPI integration of Mintlify.
As the creator of Fumadocs, I wouldn't recommend switching to Fumadocs from Mintlify if you're satisfied with the current way you build docs.
However, I believe Fumadocs is a suitable tool for all Next.js developers who want to have elegant docs.

## Docusaurus

Docusaurus is a powerful framework based on React.js. It offers many cool
features with plugins and custom themes.

### Better DX

Since Fumadocs is built on the top of Next.js, you'll have to start the Next.js dev
server every time to review changes. And boilerplate code is relatively more
compared to Docusaurus. For a simple docs, Docusaurus might be a better choice
if you don't need any Next.js specific functionality.

### Plugins

You can easily achieve many things with plugins. Although the flexibility of Fumadocs is high, their
eco-system is larger and maintained by many contributors.

### When to use Fumadocs?

For most of the web applications, vanilla React.js is no longer enough.
Nowadays, we also wish to have a blog, a showcase page, a FAQ page, etc. With a
fancy UI that's breathtaking, in these cases, Fumadocs can help you build the
docs easier, with less boilerplate.

## We are moving forward

More and more advanced features are rolling out. We currently support
multiple searching solutions including Algolia Search. A good UI and user
experience is always our priority, welcome to give us feedback via Github
discussions!
