mdBook VS BookStack

I'm responsible for a number of Java products. I try to provide high-quality Javadoc for all public library interfaces, library user's guides where appropriate, and development guides for applications. The latter two take the form of MDBook documents (https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/), with the document source living in the GitHub repo so that it's tied to the particular software release in a natural way.

My org has used mdBook: https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/ (That link is itself a rendered mdBook, so that'll give you an idea of the feature set.)

(While it's definitely a Rust "thing", if you just have a set of .md files, all you need is a "SUMMARY.md" (which contains the ToC) and a small config file; i.e., you don't have to have any Rust code to use it, and it works fine without. We document a large, mostly non-Rust codebase with it.)

If you want the lowest friction, open source, easily extensible Markdown to Web, Kindle, PDF, etc. tool, highly recommend mdBook: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook it’s written in Rust, but you don’t have to know any Rust to use it. And then wing is all CSS; for which there are many good (free) themes.

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While I haven't used it, Bookstack is spoken of favourably.

On another topic, anyone knows anything similar to what's mentioned in this issue? https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/473

We use a selfhosted Bookstack

In a self hosted bookstack wiki alongside my notes etc. https://www.bookstackapp.com/

Are you sure you need a wiki and not a knowledge base like osticket or bookstat? https://www.bookstackapp.com/

You can spend as low as nothing and use BookStack for a great wiki experience.