Elevating Developer Experience: Best Practices for Technical Documentation in 2025
1 min read
Summary
While technical documentation is crucial to software development, it is often overlooked, resulting in inefficiencies in onboarding and knowledge sharing and frustration among developers.
Successful development teams address this by considering documentation as significant as coding, treating it with the utmost care.
Documentation should be written in conjunction with code, using frameworks like Sphinx, JSDoc, or Javadoc, and checked off as part of the definition of done for each development task.
Documentation should be accessible and structured with entries for getting started, concepts, how-to guides, references, and troubleshooting.
Modern documentation practices include storing documentation in version control and implementing CI/CD, treating it as code, using visual media, automating documentation tasks, and regularly reviewing and updating documentation.
Developer teams can improve their productivity, code quality, and satisfaction by prioritizing documentation as a core development task.