MdBook
MdBook is a self-hosted documents & knowledge base tool that creates books with Markdown using Rust.
Overview
Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust The project has 21K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under MPL-2.0.
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