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Docusaurus

★ 62k

Meta's static-site generator for beautiful versioned documentation sites from Markdown.

Docusaurus does the job of GitBook, self-hosted. It is MIT-licensed, so you can do essentially what you like with it, and it installs in about one command. GitBook bills $65 for it. 62k stars on GitHub.

Open-source replacement for GitBook.

Licence
MIT
Self-hosting
Easy
The paid one costs
$65
GitHub stars
62k
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Is it actually a replacement?

We have not written a verdict on GitBook yet, so this page says what Docusaurus is rather than judging what you would give up. When that product gets a page, this one will link to it.

Docusaurus questions

Is Docusaurus open source?

Yes — it is released under MIT.

Can I self-host Docusaurus?

Yes — we rate it easy to self-host.

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