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by james_impliu 2306 days ago
No affiliation, but I found Dash incredibly helpful for working offline: https://kapeli.com/dash. You can download the docs for most languages/frameworks AND you can download Stackoverflow by section in a way you can read and search.
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Dash is awesome, and even more so when you use the Alfred integrations to get essentially a system-wide hotkey for doc search. Alfred hotkey, docset abbreviation you set, search string, and you're there.
Pity it's mac only
Check out Zeal, which piggybacks on Dash for Linux and Windows: https://zealdocs.org/
Funny, I've been looking for something like this, without knowing that I was really.

Unfortunately I am getting "Content rendering error An unhandled error occurred in the application. We apologize for the inconvenience!" for the HTML, CSS and JS references.

edit: That appears to be a bigger issue which has been discussed for some time by a few people (https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/1155).

  find ~/.local/share/Zeal/Zeal/docsets -name "react-main.*.js" -exec rm -rf {} \;

here's a fix that worked for me on Manjaro (Linux) for the time being.
Try https://devdocs.io/ instead. browser based and offline*

I refresh it before every long haul flight.

* Uses localstorage and sometimes can be cleared.

Dash docsets can be used without Mac e.g., in Emacs http://puntoblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/01/ann-helm-dash-docu...