Generating documentation with a modern look

Having your project documented with a clean, fresh design is also important. After all, if we put all this work into writing high-quality documentation for our cutting-edge project, it is imperative that the user perceives it as such. Doxygen has all the bells and whistles, but it isn't known for following the latest visual trends. That doesn't mean we'll need a lot of effort to change this, however.

Luckily, a developer known as jothepro created a theme called doxygen-awesome-css that offers a modern, customizable design. It even comes with a dark mode! You can see this in the following screenshot:

Figure 10.3 – HTML documentation in doxygen-awesome-css theme

The theme doesn't require any additional dependencies and can be easily fetched from its GitHub page at https://github.com/jothepro/doxygen-awesome-css.

Note

Online sources suggest using multiple applications executed in...