Introduction

sladocs is a server that previews a directory of Markdown with a single command. It gives you Fumadocs' polished UI — sidebar, table of contents, full-text search, and dark mode — with no installation and no configuration.

project
├── docs
│   ├── index.md
│   ├── spec.md
│   └── design.md
├── README.md

npx sladocs

When to use sladocs

If you keep your documentation as Markdown in the same repository as your code, sladocs is a simple way to read it. It mirrors your directory structure in the navigation and searches across every page, so multi-page documents — design notes, runbooks, specifications — stay easy to navigate however many pages they grow to.

Add a meta.json to order and group your pages the way a reader would expect, rather than by file name.

What you get

• GFM rendering — callouts, code blocks, inline HTML, and more.
• Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX math, and Shiki syntax highlighting.
• Images, HTML prototypes, PDFs, and other static assets served as-is.
• meta.json navigation, resolved links between pages, and full-text search.
• Hot reload on save.
• A multi-project layout for several directories at once.
• Static builds of the docs site.

How it differs from fumadocs-preview

Fumadocs also has an official CLI, fumadocs-preview, for quickly displaying a Markdown directory. When the two overlap, keep these differences in mind:

• Zero-install even when configured. fumadocs-preview assumes a local install as a dev dependency in order to customize it, but sladocs stays npx-only even after you add configuration.
• Links stay plain Markdown. Ordinary relative-path links between pages resolve as written — no rewriting and no special build-time syntax required.
• Static assets served as-is. Not only images, but relative links to HTML prototypes, PDFs, and the like are served directly.