Starlight
Everything you need to build a stellar documentation website
- Also known as
- starlight
What is Starlight?
A documentation site builder powered by Astro that includes site navigation, search, internationalization, SEO, typography, code highlighting, and dark mode.
What Starlight does
The capabilities that matter for documentation tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Tool kind
- Static-site generator
- Engine / language
- Astro
- Authoring format
- -
- API reference from OpenAPI / code
- -
- Multi-version docs
- -
- Internationalisation
- ✓
- Search
- Built-in
- Theming / custom design
- ✓
- Edit-in-Git / WYSIWYG round-trip
- -
- Self-hostable
- ✓
- Official managed host
- -
- Built-in usage analytics
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Self-hosted
Integrations (4)
Independently observed- React
- Vue
- Svelte
- Solid
Starlight alternatives
Other documentation tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- DocusaurusBuild optimized websites quickly, focus on your contentlow · 46%
- SphinxCreate intelligent and beautiful documentation with easelow · 42%
- VitePressVite & Vue Powered Static Site Generatorlow · 40%
- GitBookThe knowledge layer for AI — AI made docs easy to write. Not easy to trust.medium · 59%
- HugoThe world's fastest framework for building websiteslow · 21%
- FumadocsA fast, flexible documentation framework for Reactlow · 40%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Starlight, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package Downloads | 76 | 26.00 | 1965.6 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 98 | 10.00 | 983.3 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 55 | 18.00 | 981.7 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 58 | 16.00 | 925.0 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 75 | 5.00 | 373.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 20 | 8.00 | 160.8 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 0 | 13.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 53 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"i18n":true,"kind":"static_generator","engine":"Astro","search":"built_in","themeable":true,"self_hostable":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 4 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | TypeScript | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | MIT | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 99% |
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70% |