---
title: 'Laravel Markdown Documentation'
description: 'LaRecipe helps you write clean and beautiful documentation using Markdown for your software projects and keeping the docs within the source code.'
url: 'https://larecipe.saleem.dev/2.x'
version: 2.x
locale: en
last_updated: '2026-10-17'
---

> Docs index: https://larecipe.saleem.dev/2.x/llms.txt · MCP: https://larecipe.saleem.dev/mcp · Skill: https://larecipe.saleem.dev/skill.md

# Laravel Markdown Documentation

> [!NOTE]
> You are reading the LaRecipe 2 docs, kept for teams still on 2.x. LaRecipe 3 is the current version: [upgrade from v2](https://larecipe.saleem.dev/3.x/upgrade) with one command.

## Overview

**LaRecipe** is simply  a code driven package provides an easy way to create beautiful documentation like this for your product or application inside your Laravel app. However, the usage of LaRecipe is not limited to creating documentation only 😏. See an [example](https://larecipe.saleem.dev/2.x/example-project-tracking.md).

![screenshot](https://larecipe.saleem.dev/images/screenshot.png)

## Features

Markdown Support

UI Vue Component

Algolia and Internal Search

Forum Support

SEO Support

Google Analytics

Caching

Versioning Support

Authentication

Authorization

Artisan Commands

Keyboard Shortcuts

Responsive UI

## Credits

LaRecipe package uses internally some open-source third-party libraries/packages, many thanks to the web community:

- [Laravel](https://laravel.com) - Open source full-stack framework.
- [VueJs](https://vuejs.org) - The Progressive JavaScript Framework.
- [TailwindCSS](https://tailwindcss.com) - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
- [erusev/parsedown-extra](https://github.com/erusev/parsedown-extra) - PHP markdown parser.
- [symfony/dom-crawler](https://symfony.com) - Dom manipulation.
- [phpunit/phpunit](https://phpunit.de) - PHP unit testing library.
- [orchestra/testbench](https://github.com/orchestral/testbench) - Unit test package for Laravel packages.