PluginStatsDocs View installs statistics
By Matt Bierner (11 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Other
Display documentation in the sidebar or panel.
Docs View has 122,429 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.
It ranks #2114 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.
It is rated 4.7 out of 5 from 25 ratings.
PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.
Rating: 4.68 / 5 from 25 ratings
About Docs View
Docs View
VS Code extension that displays hover documentation in the sidebar or panel.
Features
• Automatically displays documentation for the symbol at the current cursor position. • Language independent. Works in any language that supports hovers. • The "Documentation" view shows in the panel by default. Move to other views or the panel just by dragging. • Supports syntax highlighting and markdown rendering in the docs view.
Configuration
• docsView.documentationView.updateMode — Controls how the documentation view is updated when the cursor moves. Possible values: • live — (default) The documentation always tracks the current cursor position. • sticky — The documentation tracks the current cursor position. However if there is no content at the current position, it continues showing the previous documentation.
Commands
• Pin current docs — Stop live updating of the docs view. Keeps the currently visible docs. • Unpin current docs — Make the docs view start tracking the cursor again.
Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.
- docs
- documentation
- hover
- panel
- sidebar
Where Docs View sits in the listing
Each band is one page of 20. Installs on a log scale. Placement is projected from installs, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.
Charts
Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark
Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Ranking history
Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.
Recent observations
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Data source
Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.
Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bierner.docs-view. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.