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The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites

19 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2014-04-03 · latest 2026-07-28

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  1. GitBook hasn't been open source since October 2018 ( https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook ) and software is judged by its most recent version. GitBook in its current form is a proprietary web service. The October 2018 version is open…
    comment by commoner · 2023-08-28 · in Open-Source Washing
  2. Older releases of Gitbook have been open source https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook
    comment by mtmail · 2020-11-02 · in Ask HN: Open-Source Alternatives to Gitbook
  3. …team are focused on the GitBook.com platform, the CLI is no longer under active development. — https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook#%EF%B8%8F-deprecation-w...
    comment by JimDabell · 2020-06-27 · in HonKit: A Fork of GitBook
  4. …used by the developers (and me). [Btw, the older version is easily found as GitBook legacy.] [0] https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook#%EF%B8%8F-deprecation-w...
    comment by karmakaze · 2020-04-14 · in mdBook – A utility to create modern online books from Markdown files
  5. …let the deprecated warning put you off, it works just fine and the code is not going anywhere. https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook Between the three of them you can have a simple nicely formatted static doc site up very quickly.
    comment by programd · 2019-02-07 · in Ask HN: How to build a simple (documentation) website for a project on GitHub
  6. …its documentation? Scandalous! ;) Anyway, we're using gitbook to render our documentation content: https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook The documentation also lives in the GitHub repository, albeit not as navigable as the website:…
    comment by eliperelman · 2017-02-22 · in Neutrino by Mozilla: Create and build modern JavaScript apps with zero initial config
  7. actually teaching the content to people helped me the most. gitbook is awesome and free. https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook blog a lot and start making a list of subscribers yesterday.
    comment by andrei512 · 2016-10-26 · in Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?
  8. I believe it's Gitbook - https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook
    comment by esmevane · 2016-04-25 · in Leaf – Machine Learning for Hackers
  9. > The format and toolchain itself is open-source ( https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook )
    comment by kaoD · 2015-09-03 · in Madoko – Write full-blown academic articles in Markdown
  10. …we store git repos too. If we shutdown, our toolchain and book format is already open source ( https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook ), so no matter what you'll always be able to use that to build your book locally. Secondly our Desktop…
    comment by AaronO · 2015-09-03 · in Madoko – Write full-blown academic articles in Markdown
  11. …eeuw.gitbooks.io/bras1/content/blockrelaxation/... ) The format and toolchain itself is open-source ( https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook ) There's a ecosystem built on top of that such as a Desktop Editor ( https://www.gitbook.com/editor…
    comment by AaronO · 2015-09-03 · in Madoko – Write full-blown academic articles in Markdown
  12. …DOT com And if you want to contribute to GitBook, our book format and toolchain is open source: https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook
    comment by AaronO · 2015-03-16 · in GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain
  13. …you missed it, we're a big believer in open-source, in fact our book format and toolchain is open: https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook This allows us to build better publishing tools together, no vendor lock-in and developers can build…
    comment by AaronO · 2015-03-16 · in GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain
  14. …in chinese alone. In the upcoming 2.0.0 release, we've further improved internationalisation: https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook/tree/master/theme/i18n We automatically detect your book's language (or you can specify itself) and so then…
    comment by AaronO · 2015-03-16 · in GitBook: A modern publishing toolchain
  15. …( https://www.gitbook.io/ ). We have a one source format based on markdown which is open source ( https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook ) ! And from this we build a nice web book, ebook (EPUB, MOBI) and PDFs. I don't want this to be a…
    comment by AaronO · 2014-11-04 · in How I made the print and eBook versions of my web book
  16. Add an issue on Github ( https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook/issues ) ;)
    comment by SamyPesse · 2014-04-04 · in Show HN: GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown
  17. Done https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook/commit/55d9bfbf1833376d...
    comment by SamyPesse · 2014-04-03 · in Show HN: GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown
  18. This is incredible! Here is the repo if anyone wants to star it: https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook I will definitely use this for the CoderDojoNYC curriculum I'm building.
    comment by carlsednaoui · 2014-04-03 · in Show HN: GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown