Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

• BookStack

  312 13,782 9.6 PHP

  A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel

  

> Does BookStack index uploaded files for search? If so, what formats does it support?

No, unfortunately not. You can attach files but we only support indexing (And parsing) of core page content. Indexing other formats opens up a large branch of maintenance while adding potential confusion in the platform in regards to what's considered content.

> Can pages (or books) be exported in common formats?

Yeah, Both can be exported as plaintext, markdown, contained-html or PDF. The PDF export can be troublesome but works for most simple use-cases.

> Any plans to support Postgres in the future?

Not in sight for the near future. I'm not closed off to it but there are questions of support and maintainership. My detailed thoughts on additional database support can be found here: https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/issues/76#issuecom...

• Outline

  194 24,001 9.9 TypeScript

  The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

  

I can't say I would use BookStack. The demo doesn't show the same sort of ease of use that Confluence has, nor the features.

I really like Outline https://www.getoutline.com/ as it is open source, self hosted and free if you don't use the Enterprise features. It really does seem to be a Confluence replacement.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• Wiki.js

  122 23,451 7.1 Vue

  Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

  

Not sure if this fully fits your needs but you might want to look at Wiki.js. You can self host it, has WYSIWYG editor available. I'm not associated, just use it for some time.

https://js.wiki/

• TOAST UI Editor

  17 16,745 0.0 TypeScript

  🍞📝 Markdown WYSIWYG Editor. GFM Standard + Chart & UML Extensible.

  

Have you looked at Toast UI Editor (MIT license)?

https://ui.toast.com/tui-editor

I checked out a bunch of text editors on a past project and this one has worked very well as a WYSIWYG markdown editor.

• dokuwiki-krypton

  1 7 1.8 CSS

  Nice (simple, modern, polished) DokuWiki theme.

  

Huh, so that's why the last update of Argon was 2 years ago :-)

FWIW, I consider it to be the best theme available for DokuWiki and my organization uses a forked version of it (https://github.com/fablab-luenen/dokuwiki-krypton).

• redoc

  35 22,462 7.5 TypeScript

  📘 OpenAPI/Swagger-generated API Reference Documentation

  

• Hugo

  548 72,452 9.8 Go

  The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

  

[1]: https://gohugo.io

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• docker-bookstack

  9 664 8.5 Dockerfile

  A Docker container for the BookStack documentation wiki

  

It depends on the container you use, Most seem to provide guidance on what paths you'll need to mount as volumes. I know the linuxserver.io [1] container puts all required files into a single `/config` directory to mount.

[1] https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-bookstack/

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