Meet Blume: An Open-Source, Zero-Config Documentation Framework That Ships AI-Ready Docs From a Markdown Folder
Hayden Bleasel , an expert developer from OpenAI, released Blume , an open-source documentation framework. Blume shipped to npm as version 1.0.3 the same day. It is as simple as Drop Markdown into a folder and ship a docs site. No app boilerplate is written or maintained afterward. The project is MIT-licensed and open sourced. What is Blume? Blume is a command-line tool paired with a component library for docs. It reads a folder of Markdown or MDX files. From that folder, it produces a production-grade documentation site. That output ships navigation, search, theming, and Open Graph images. Configuration stays optional and is added one file at a time. The code is a TypeScript monorepo; the published package sits at packages/blume . Blume’s own documentation, under apps/docs , is built with Blume itself. It requires Node.js 22.12 or newer. It runs with Bun, pnpm, npm, or yarn. How Blume Works ? Under the surface, Blume generates and drives a hidden Astro project. ...
