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honkit

:book: HonKit is building beautiful books using Markdown - Fork of GitBook

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:book: HonKit is building beautiful books using Markdown - Fork of GitBook

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Since I see a few people in these comments mourning the general dive that gitbook has taken over the last few years, you might like this, an actively-maintained fork of gitbook…

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-06-27 04:09:56 UTC to 2023-06-30 08:09:24 UTC.

012342020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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msravi·Jun 30, 2023
So far, in this thread (in no particular order): - [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) - [Hugo Book](https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book) - [MdBook](https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/) - [MkDocs](https://www.mkdocs.org/) - [MkDocs Material](https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/) - [GitBook](https://www.gitbook.com/) - [Antora](https://antora.org/) - [Docusaurus](https://docusaurus.io/) - [Nextra](https://nextra.site/) - [Astro](https://astro.build/) - [Starlight](https://starlight.astro.build/) - [Clowncar](https://github.com/secretGeek/clowncar) - [Keenwrite](https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite) - [Quarto](https://quarto.org/) - [Honkit](https://github.com/honkit/honkit) - [JupyterBook](https://jupyterbook.org/)
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