Material for MkDocs
Professional documentation theme for MkDocs with responsive design.
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How Material for MkDocs is used
Material for MkDocs is a dependency in 18 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 44 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use MkDocs (84.1%), pytest (59.1%), NumPy (56.8%).
Material for MkDocs popularity over time
Gid Score 60: downloads 75, use in agent projects 39, GitHub stars 67, downloads trend 52 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Material for MkDocs
| MkDocs | 84.1% of Material for MkDocs projects · 348.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| pytest | 59.1% of Material for MkDocs projects · 14.4× more than average |
| NumPy | 56.8% of Material for MkDocs projects · 9.7× more than average |
| PyYAML | 54.5% of Material for MkDocs projects · 9.2× more than average |
| Click | 50.0% of Material for MkDocs projects · 20.0× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 50.0% of Material for MkDocs projects · 5.5× more than average |
| Requests | 50.0% of Material for MkDocs projects · 7.4× more than average |
| pandas | 50.0% of Material for MkDocs projects · 11.6× more than average |
From all 44 projects in our scan that use Material for MkDocs, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Material for MkDocs as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install mkdocs-material |
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| Main stacks | Python (43), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | apconw/Aix-DB, AgnetLabs/Laddr, salacoste/mcp-n8n-workflow-builder, camel-ai/seta, nirholas/universal-crypto-mcp |
Alternatives to Material for MkDocs
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Dev workflow and config does the same job as Material for MkDocs: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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