Generating documentation with a modern look

Having your project documented with a clean, fresh design is 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. Although Doxygen is feature-rich, it isn’t renowned for adhering to the latest visual trends. However, revamping its appearance doesn’t require substantial effort.

Luckily, a developer named jothepro created a theme called doxygen-awesome-css, which offers a modern, customizable design. This theme is presented in the following screenshot:

Figure 13.4: 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.

While some online sources recommend using a combination of applications, like transforming Doxygen’s output with...