Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/meta/docusaurus/vs/withastro/starlight
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/meta/docusaurus/vs/withastro/starlight.md
Description: docusaurus and starlight share 6 technologies: unified, unist-util-visit, mdast-util-to-string, mdast-util-directive, remark-directive, and vfile. Both are written in TypeScript.

# docusaurus vs starlight

docusaurus and starlight share 6 technologies: unified, unist-util-visit, mdast-util-to-string, mdast-util-directive, remark-directive, and vfile. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [meta/docusaurus](https://seerepo.com/r/meta/docusaurus): Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
- [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: unified, unist-util-visit, mdast-util-to-string, mdast-util-directive, remark-directive, vfile
- Only in docusaurus: React, react-router-dom, react-router-config, prompts, lightningcss, mdast-util-mdx, remark-mdx, @slorber/remark-comment, escape-html, image-size, rehype-raw, remark-emoji, remark-frontmatter, remark-gfm, eta, Cheerio, feed, srcset, js-yaml, PostCSS, react-json-view-lite, workbox-precaching, workbox-window, rtlcss, prism-react-renderer, nprogress, @mdx-js/react, prismjs, Mermaid, @docsearch/react, Algolia, joi, @11ty/gray-matter, react-helmet-async, react-loadable, serve-handler, sharp
- Only in starlight: Astro, @docsearch/css, @docsearch/js, @astrojs/markdoc, astro-expressive-code, satteri, astrojs, hast-util-to-html, hastscript, hast-util-select, hast-util-to-string, mdast-util-to-markdown, yaml, hast-util-format, ultrahtml

## Side by side

| | docusaurus | starlight |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 132,513 lines written, 782 code files | 31,765 lines written, 156 code files |
| Who writes it | 3.6% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 12, 2026, 7,006 commits, 66,723 stars | Last push November 13, 2026, 3,876 commits, 9,584 stars |
| Tests | 304 test files. 31.3% 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, docusaurus or starlight?

docusaurus, with 132,513 lines written; starlight has 31,765.

The proof: [meta/docusaurus's code at commit 04faec4](https://github.com/meta/docusaurus/tree/04faec4e63119897477478824af55ddadcd79730)

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

docusaurus, with 66,723 stars; starlight has 9,584.

The proof: [meta/docusaurus on GitHub](https://github.com/meta/docusaurus)

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

docusaurus, with 304 test files; starlight has 158.

The proof: [meta/docusaurus's code at commit 04faec4](https://github.com/meta/docusaurus/tree/04faec4e63119897477478824af55ddadcd79730)

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

starlight: its last push was on November 13, 2026, and docusaurus's on November 12, 2026.

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

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

docusaurus: an AI signed 3.6% of its commits, with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot; in starlight, 0.2%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in meta/docusaurus](https://seerepo.com/r/meta/docusaurus/ai)

## Sources

- meta/docusaurus: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit 04faec4 (https://github.com/meta/docusaurus/tree/04faec4e63119897477478824af55ddadcd79730)
- 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.