# Protocol: A beautiful starting point for your next API documentation site

DevFeed: [Protocol: A beautiful starting point for your next API documentation site](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/protocol-a-beautiful-starting-point-for-your-next-api-documentation-site-3451.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tailwindcss.com/blog/2022-12-15-protocol-api-documentation-template>)

Published: 2022-12-15T15:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Tailwind CSS Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tailwind-css-blog.md>)

Topics: [Template](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/template.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [MDX](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mdx.md>), [Next.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/next-js.md>), [Tailwind CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tailwind.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>), [Framer Motion](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/framer-motion.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [api-documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api-documentation.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [components](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/components.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [js](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/js.md>), [markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/markdown.md>), [mdx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mdx.md>), [next-js](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/next-js.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [tailwind-css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tailwind-css.md>)

## AI overview

Tailwind CSS introduces Protocol, a website template for building API reference documentation sites with Next.js and MDX. The article highlights its polished navigation and interaction design, authoring workflow, reusable components, and the mdx-annotations library for passing data through MDX tags.

## Source excerpt

It's been months in the making but I'm excited to finally release our next website template -- Protocol, a beautiful starter kit for building amazing API reference websites.