GitBook Documentation

GitBook is a documentation platform founded by Samy Pesse and Aaron O'Mullan in 2014, headquartered in San Francisco, providing a modern documentation solution with a Markdown-based editor, live preview, version control integration, customizable themes, search, analytics, and team collaboration, designed for creating product documentation, API references, knowledge bases, and technical handbooks, adopted by over three hundred thousand organizations including Google, Adobe, Stripe, Nike, and Decathlon for their documentation websites, with the platform evolving from an open-source static site generator into a full SaaS documentation platform. The editor provides a rich text editing experience with Markdown support, live preview, drag-and-drop content blocks, syntax-highlighted code blocks with copy buttons, admonitions for callouts, tabs for organizing content, embedded videos, diagrams through Mermaid integration, math formulas through KaTeX, and API documentation through OpenAPI spec rendering, enabling technical writers and developers to create professional documentation without HTML or CSS knowledge. The content management system organizes documentation into spaces, with each space containing a hierarchical page structure, customizable navigation, variables for content reuse, conditional content based on audience, and internationalization for multilingual documentation, with the page system supporting draft, review, and published states. The collaboration features include real-time co-editing, comments, suggestions, change requests, version history, and role-based access control with viewer, editor, admin, and owner roles. The integration with GitHub and GitLab for bidirectional sync. The OpenAPI rendering for API docs. The visitor authentication. The custom domains. The AI-powered search and content summarization. Designed for technical documentation teams.