Explicode

Explicode revolutionizes the way you document code by allowing you to write rich Markdown documentation directly alongside your implementation, just like Overleaf does for LaTeX. Since the documentation lives inside comments, it does not affect your code and works with any programming language.

By keeping the docs in the code rather than in external files, updating and collaborating becomes seamless—version control works the same way as your code with Git. Explicode lets you open a live preview on the right side of your editor, rendering both code and Markdown in real time.

You can add headers, text styling, math, and images, making it ideal for academia, open source projects, and math-heavy repositories like AI/ML. Finally, your documentation can be exported as Markdown or HTML for sharing or publishing.

Supported Languages

Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, JavaScript React, TypeScript React, Java, C++, C, C#, Rust, Go, Ruby, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Julia, MATLAB, Scala, Dart, CSS, SCSS, LESS, SQL, Lua, Perl, LaTeX, Elixir, Elm, CoffeeScript, Objective-C.

Note: Please contact us if you would like another language supported, or if you encounter issues with specific comment syntax.

Quick Guide

You can create Markdown documentation in several ways:

• Press Control+Alt+M to add a Markdown block.
• Right-click and select Inject Markdown.
• Manually enter multi-line comments with the tags @startmd and @endmd.

Markdown syntax inside these tags will be automatically highlighted.

Example for Python

''' @startmd
# Fibonacci
- `Input`: n (int) — Number of Fibonacci numbers to generate.
- `Output`: List of the first n Fibonacci numbers.
@endmd '''

def fibonacci(n):
    if n <= 0:
        return []
    elif n == 1:
        return [0]
    seq = [0, 1]
    for _ in range(2, n):
        seq.append(seq[-1] + seq[-2])
    return seq

fibonacci(5)  # Output: [0, 1, 1, 2, 3]

Example for JavaScript:

/* @startmd
# Fibonacci
- `Input`: n (int) Number of Fibonacci numbers to generate.
- `Output`: List of first n Fibonacci numbers.
@endmd */

function fibonacci(n) {
    if (n <= 0) return [];
    if (n === 1) return [0];

    const seq = [0, 1];
    for (let i = 2; i < n; i++) {
        seq.push(seq[i - 1] + seq[i - 2]);
    }
    return seq;
}

fibonacci(5)  // Output: [0, 1, 1, 2, 3]

Use Control+Alt+E or right click Open with Explicode to open live rendered preview on the right window.

Supported Markdown Syntax

Markdown Guide

Contact

Please email froem076@umn.edu with new feature ideas, bugs, and collaboration.