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Introducing the Legal Eagle public documentation site

· 3 min read
Full-stack engineer (React, Capacitor, Firebase)

The application source code for legaleaglelaws.com is in a private repository — and is going to stay there. The platform handles confidential client matters and publishing the source would be both an indirect security risk and a distraction from the work.

But documentation is different.

Documentation is the part of a product where transparency makes the product more trustworthy, not less. A user who reads how a feature works, what it does not do, and where its limits are is a user who can use it well. Hidden documentation tends to be less rigorous — there's nobody outside the team checking it — and it tends to atrophy because nobody outside the team can correct it.

So as of today, the Legal Eagle Law Firm public documentation lives at legaleaglelaws-docs.aoneahsan.com — an openly licensed (CC BY 4.0), separately hosted Docusaurus site. The repository is public on GitHub at aoneahsan/legaleaglelawfirm-docs; spotting an inaccuracy or want to suggest a clearer way to phrase something, open a pull request.