Stripe Mock API Documentation

This repository presents a mock API documentation site inspired by Stripe, built using MkDocs with the Material for MkDocs theme. It showcases modern, developer-focused documentation design, content structuring, and publishing workflows.

✍️ Crafted by a Technical Writer & DocOps Engineer with a PhD in Mathematics and deep expertise in Markdown, Git, CLI tooling, and documentation automation.

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🚀 Project Highlights

• 📚 API-style documentation modeled after Stripe’s developer guides and references
• 🔧 Built with MkDocs for fast, responsive static site generation
• 🎨 Powered by Material for MkDocs with custom theming and plugins
• 📦 Organized Markdown structure using topic-based navigation and clean URLs
• 🛠️ Features plugins like mkdocs-awesome-pages, git-revision-date-localized, and mkdocs-glightbox
• ⚙️ GitHub-integrated CI/CD ready for scalable documentation publishing

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📁 Folder Structure

stripe-mock-api-docs/
├── docs/
│   ├── index.md
│   ├── guides/
│   │   └── creating-a-charge.md
│   ├── reference/
│   │   ├── authentication.md
│   │   └── errors.md
│   └── webhooks/
│       └── handling-events.md
├── mkdocs.yml
└── requirements.txt

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🔧 Tech Stack

• Markdown: Clean, readable, and Git-friendly syntax

• MkDocs + Material Theme: Static site generation with modern developer UX

• Git + GitHub: Version-controlled, deployment-ready

• CLI: Fully operable via command-line for automation and scripting

• Plugins:

  • awesome-pages
  • git-revision-date-localized
  • glightbox

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🧰 Setup & Usage

Install the dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Serve locally:

mkdocs serve

Build static site:

mkdocs build

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🌐 Demo

Coming soon: Live GitHub Pages Site

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📌 Purpose

This project is part of a professional documentation portfolio demonstrating:

• API-first writing strategies
• Documentation architecture
• Static site generators
• DocOps pipelines using CLI and GitHub

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📮 Feedback & Contact

If you’re a hiring manager, recruiter, or fellow documentation professional, I’d love to hear your feedback.

• LinkedIn: Dr. Athar
• GitHub: @AtharKharal

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