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Expand Up @@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ Sphinx Web Support
Sphinx provides a Python API to easily integrate Sphinx documentation into your
web application. To learn more read the :ref:`websupportquickstart`.

.. _Pocoo: https://www.pocoo.org
.. _sphinx-websupport-app: https://github.com/shimizukawa/sphinx-websupport-app

.. note::

**Historical context**: Web Support originated from the `Pocoo`_ community,
the original creators of Sphinx, Jinja, Flask, Pygments, and more. Web
Support was part of a plan to create a forum application that tied together
Jinja, Flask, Sphinx, etc. The core goal behind Web Support was to enable a
user editing and suggestion layer on top of documentation. While the concept
has merit, the feature has seen limited adoption and development over the
years. As of 2025, there are few real-world examples of its use. See
`sphinx-websupport-app`_ for one such example.

.. toctree::

quickstart
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