With WriterSide, JetBrains aims to allow developers and writers to create technical documentation using a write, test, build workflow. The new tool is based on IntelliJ-platform IDEs and has been used to create most of JetBrains products’ documentation for the last few years.
One of the key goals of WriterSide is enabling effective collaboration among developers and writers and bridging the gap between them. It enforces a “doc as code” pipeline based on development tools like Git, pull reviews, and automated checks to make it possible for the whole team to contribute, review, and track changes as they are used to do with code. This, according to JetBrains, simplifies the documentation pipeline.
