diff --git a/pkg/dartdev/lib/dartdev.dart b/pkg/dartdev/lib/dartdev.dart
index a545f1a196d..3e75181c6ca 100644
--- a/pkg/dartdev/lib/dartdev.dart
+++ b/pkg/dartdev/lib/dartdev.dart
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import 'src/commands/analyze.dart';
 import 'src/commands/compile.dart';
 import 'src/commands/create.dart';
 import 'src/commands/debug_adapter.dart';
+import 'src/commands/doc.dart';
 import 'src/commands/fix.dart';
 import 'src/commands/language_server.dart';
 import 'src/commands/migrate.dart';
@@ -114,6 +115,7 @@ class DartdevRunner extends CommandRunner<int> {
     addCommand(CreateCommand(verbose: verbose));
     addCommand(DebugAdapterCommand(verbose: verbose));
     addCommand(CompileCommand(verbose: verbose));
+    addCommand(DocCommand(verbose: verbose));
     addCommand(DevToolsCommand(
       verbose: verbose,
       customDevToolsPath: sdk.devToolsBinaries,
diff --git a/pkg/dartdev/lib/src/commands/doc.dart b/pkg/dartdev/lib/src/commands/doc.dart
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d0391836529
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/dartdev/lib/src/commands/doc.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2021, the Dart project authors. Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:io' as io;
+
+import 'package:dartdoc/dartdoc.dart';
+import 'package:dartdoc/options.dart';
+import 'package:path/path.dart' as path;
+
+import '../core.dart';
+import '../sdk.dart';
+
+/// A command to create a new project from a set of templates.
+class DocCommand extends DartdevCommand {
+  static const String cmdName = 'doc';
+
+  DocCommand({bool verbose = false})
+      : super(
+          cmdName,
+          'Generate HTML API documentation from Dart documentation comments.',
+          verbose,
+        ) {
+    argParser.addOption(
+      'output-dir',
+      abbr: 'o',
+      defaultsTo: path.join('.', 'doc', 'api'),
+      help: 'Output directory',
+    );
+    argParser.addFlag(
+      'validate-links',
+      negatable: true,
+      help: 'Display context aware warnings for broken links (slow)',
+    );
+  }
+
+  @override
+  String get invocation => '${super.invocation} <input directory>';
+
+  @override
+  FutureOr<int> run() async {
+    // At least one argument, the input directory, is required.
+    if (argResults.rest.isEmpty) {
+      usageException("Error: Input directory not specified");
+    }
+
+    // Determine input directory.
+    final dir = io.Directory(argResults.rest[0]);
+    if (!dir.existsSync()) {
+      usageException("Error: Input directory doesn't exist: ${dir.path}");
+    }
+
+    // Parse options.
+    final options = [
+      '--input=${dir.path}',
+      '--output=${argResults['output-dir']}',
+    ];
+    if (argResults['validate-links']) {
+      options.add('--validate-links');
+    } else {
+      options.add('--no-validate-links');
+    }
+
+    // Specify where dartdoc resources are located.
+    final resourcesPath =
+        path.absolute(sdk.sdkPath, 'bin', 'resources', 'dartdoc', 'resources');
+    options.add('--resources-dir=$resourcesPath');
+
+    final config = await parseOptions(pubPackageMetaProvider, options);
+    if (config == null) {
+      // There was an error while parsing options.
+      return 2;
+    }
+
+    // Call dartdoc.
+    if (verbose) {
+      log.stdout('Calling dartdoc with the following options: $options');
+    }
+    final packageConfigProvider = PhysicalPackageConfigProvider();
+    final packageBuilder = PubPackageBuilder(
+        config, pubPackageMetaProvider, packageConfigProvider);
+    final dartdoc = config.generateDocs
+        ? await Dartdoc.fromContext(config, packageBuilder)
+        : await Dartdoc.withEmptyGenerator(config, packageBuilder);
+    dartdoc.executeGuarded();
+    return 0;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/pkg/dartdev/pubspec.yaml b/pkg/dartdev/pubspec.yaml
index 0145fab20d3..aa4f9222307 100644
--- a/pkg/dartdev/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/pkg/dartdev/pubspec.yaml
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ dependencies:
   dart2native:
     path: ../dart2native
   dart_style: any
+  dartdoc: any
   dds:
     path: ../dds
   devtools_server: any
diff --git a/pkg/dartdev/test/commands/doc_test.dart b/pkg/dartdev/test/commands/doc_test.dart
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9f57108bba4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/dartdev/test/commands/doc_test.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2021, the Dart project authors. Please see the AUTHORS file
+// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+import 'package:test/test.dart';
+
+import '../utils.dart';
+
+const int compileErrorExitCode = 64;
+
+void main() {
+  group('doc', defineCompileTests, timeout: longTimeout);
+}
+
+void defineCompileTests() {
+  test('Passing no args fails', () async {
+    final p = project();
+    var result = await p.run(['doc']);
+    expect(result.stderr, contains('Input directory not specified'));
+    expect(result.exitCode, compileErrorExitCode);
+  });
+
+  test('--help', () async {
+    final p = project();
+    final result = await p.run(['doc', '--help']);
+    expect(
+      result.stdout,
+      contains('Usage: dart doc [arguments] <input directory>'),
+    );
+
+    expect(result.exitCode, 0);
+  });
+
+  test('Document a library', () async {
+    final source = '''
+/// This is Foo. It uses [Bar].
+class Foo {
+    Bar bar;
+}
+
+/// Bar is very nice.
+class Bar {
+    _i = 42;
+}
+    ''';
+
+    final p = project(mainSrc: 'void main() { print("Hello, World"); }');
+    p.file('lib/foo.dart', source);
+    final result = await p.run(['doc', '--validate-links', p.dirPath]);
+    print(
+        'exit: ${result.exitCode}, stderr:\n${result.stderr}\nstdout:\n${result.stdout}');
+    expect(result.stdout, contains('Documenting dartdev_temp'));
+  });
+
+  test('Document a library with broken link is flagged', () async {
+    final source = '''
+/// This is Foo. It uses [Baz].
+class Foo {
+  //  Bar bar;
+}
+    ''';
+
+    final p = project(mainSrc: 'void main() { print("Hello, World"); }');
+    p.file('lib/foo.dart', source);
+    final result = await p.run(['doc', '--validate-links', p.dirPath]);
+    print(
+        'exit: ${result.exitCode}, stderr:\n${result.stderr}\nstdout:\n${result.stdout}');
+    expect(result.stdout, contains('Documenting dartdev_temp'));
+  });
+}
diff --git a/sdk/bin/dartdoc b/sdk/bin/dartdoc
index e9584c1ced7..f7ad6828eeb 100755
--- a/sdk/bin/dartdoc
+++ b/sdk/bin/dartdoc
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ SNAPSHOT="$BIN_DIR/snapshots/dartdoc.dart.snapshot"
 
 # We are running the snapshot in the built SDK.
 DART="$BIN_DIR/dart"
-exec "$DART" "--packages=$BIN_DIR/resources/dartdoc/.packages" "$SNAPSHOT" "$@"
+exec "$DART" "--packages=$BIN_DIR/resources/dartdoc/.packages" "$SNAPSHOT" "--resources-dir=$BIN_DIR/resources/dartdoc/resources/" "$@"