Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/fuma-nama/fumadocs/vs/withastro/starlight
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/fuma-nama/fumadocs/vs/withastro/starlight.md
Description: fumadocs and starlight share 6 technologies: Astro, satteri, yaml, unified, vfile, and remark-directive. Both are written in TypeScript.

# fumadocs vs starlight

fumadocs and starlight share 6 technologies: Astro, satteri, yaml, unified, vfile, and remark-directive. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [fuma-nama/fumadocs](https://seerepo.com/r/fuma-nama/fumadocs): The beautiful & flexible React.js docs framework.
- [withastro/starlight](https://seerepo.com/r/withastro/starlight): 🌟 Build beautiful, accessible, high-performance documentation websites with Astro

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Astro, satteri, yaml, unified, vfile, remark-directive
- Only in fumadocs: React, Vite, @astrojs/react, Next.js, React Router, TanStack, waku, meilisearch, MCP, Hono, Sanity, cn, Base UI, Lucide, @ai-sdk/react, ai, remark, remark-gfm, remark-rehype, remend, @astrojs/markdown-satteri, Tailwind CSS, json-schema-typed, class-variance-authority, next-themes, motion, react-remove-scroll, scroll-into-view-if-needed, react-medium-image-zoom, takumi-js, shiki, @clack/prompts, @content-collections/core, Zod, @standard-schema/spec, @pierre/highlights, mdast-util-mdx, remark-mdx, @shikijs/transformers, hast-util-to-jsx-runtime, micromark, micromark-extension-gfm-table, rehype-raw, rehype-stringify, hast-util-from-html, mdast-util-from-markdown, micromark-extension-mdxjs-esm, unist-util-remove-position, remark-parse, @hono/node-server, @scalar/api-client-react, xml-js, beautiful-mermaid, OpenRouter, katex, rehype-katex, remark-math, Radix UI, @portabletext/react, next-sanity, shadcn, react-error-boundary, postcss-selector-parser, mdast-util-to-hast
- Only in starlight: @docsearch/css, @docsearch/js, @astrojs/markdoc, astro-expressive-code, unist-util-visit, astrojs, hast-util-to-html, hastscript, hast-util-select, hast-util-to-string, mdast-util-directive, mdast-util-to-markdown, hast-util-format, mdast-util-to-string, ultrahtml

## Side by side

| | fumadocs | starlight |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 185,442 lines written, 1,237 code files | 31,765 lines written, 156 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and Cursor | 0.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 9, 2026, 5,514 commits, 13,581 stars | Last push November 13, 2026, 3,876 commits, 9,584 stars |
| Tests | 197 test files. 21.1% of its code files have a test that imports them | 158 test files. 43.6% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, fumadocs or starlight?

fumadocs, with 185,442 lines written; starlight has 31,765.

The proof: [fuma-nama/fumadocs's code at commit ff83733](https://github.com/fuma-nama/fumadocs/tree/ff837337aca13c42a859b507f31461584c56a87b)

### Which has more GitHub stars, fumadocs or starlight?

fumadocs, with 13,581 stars; starlight has 9,584.

The proof: [fuma-nama/fumadocs on GitHub](https://github.com/fuma-nama/fumadocs)

### Which has more tests, fumadocs or starlight?

fumadocs, with 197 test files; starlight has 158.

The proof: [fuma-nama/fumadocs's code at commit ff83733](https://github.com/fuma-nama/fumadocs/tree/ff837337aca13c42a859b507f31461584c56a87b)

### Which was updated more recently, fumadocs or starlight?

starlight: its last push was on November 13, 2026, and fumadocs's on November 9, 2026.

The proof: [withastro/starlight's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/withastro/starlight/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, fumadocs or starlight?

starlight: an AI signed 0.2% of its commits, with Claude Code and Cursor; in fumadocs, 0.1%.

## Sources

- fuma-nama/fumadocs: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit ff83733 (https://github.com/fuma-nama/fumadocs/tree/ff837337aca13c42a859b507f31461584c56a87b)
- withastro/starlight: Read on November 14, 2026, at commit 6282133 (https://github.com/withastro/starlight/tree/62821331b95d55e9346ca34ebacc676d7be1f26b)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.