# Bookdown

Static documentation generator that turns Markdown and JSON configuration files into DocBook-like HTML pages.

STUB. This software has no release or pre-release in four years, or its project site no longer shows it, so it is not part of the register, not counted and not indexed. It will be checked again.

Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/bookdown/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-20
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-20

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/bookdown/Bookdown.Bookdown
- docs: https://bookdown.github.io/

### Identity

- status: stub
- maintainer: Bookdown.Bookdown Contributors
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: unknown
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ssg
- hosting: unknown
- language: php
- runtime: php
- runtimeMin: php 5.6
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: local
- renderingModes: static
- installMethod: composer create-project

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2019-04-23

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 82
- packagistDownloads: 66604
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: unknown
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: 715
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 25
- dependentPackages: 18

### Sources

- urls: https://github.com/bookdown/Bookdown.Bookdown (read 2026-10-20)
- urls: https://bookdown.github.io/intro/what-is-bookdown.html (read 2026-10-20)
- maintainer: https://github.com/bookdown/Bookdown.Bookdown/blob/1.x/composer.json (read 2026-10-20)
- category: https://bookdown.github.io/intro/what-is-bookdown.html (read 2026-10-20)
- language: https://github.com/bookdown/Bookdown.Bookdown (read 2026-10-20)
- runtime: https://bookdown.github.io/intro/getting-started.html (read 2026-10-20)
- runtimeMin: https://bookdown.github.io/intro/getting-started.html (read 2026-10-20)
- runsAs: https://bookdown.github.io/basic/generating-html.html (read 2026-10-20)
- renderingModes: https://bookdown.github.io/basic/publishing.html (read 2026-10-20)
- installMethod: https://bookdown.github.io/intro/getting-started.html (read 2026-10-20)
- contentStore: https://bookdown.github.io/intro/what-is-bookdown.html (read 2026-10-20)
- license: https://github.com/bookdown/Bookdown.Bookdown (read 2026-10-20)
- license: https://github.com/bookdown/Bookdown.Bookdown/blob/1.x/LICENSE.md (read 2026-10-20)
- currentMajor: https://repo.packagist.org/p2/bookdown/bookdown.json (read 2026-10-20)
- latestReleaseDate: https://repo.packagist.org/p2/bookdown/bookdown.json (read 2026-10-20)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/bookdown/Bookdown.Bookdown (read 2026-10-20)
- packagistDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/bookdown/bookdown.json (read 2026-10-20)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/bookdown%2Fbookdown (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/bookdown%2Fbookdown (read 2026-10-25)
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/bookdown/bookdown/stats.json (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Bookdown is a PHP command-line tool that reads Markdown files and JSON configuration and writes DocBook-like HTML pages with a table of contents, numbered headings and previous, next and up navigation. The output is plain HTML, so the generated site can be published from a Git repository to GitHub Pages or any static host.

It is installed with Composer from a skeleton project, and the [getting-started guide](https://bookdown.github.io/intro/getting-started.html) shows how to generate the example pages and review them with PHP's built-in server. The generator runs on a developer's machine, not on the live site.

## Worth knowing

The project has no working website: the address its repository names now serves an unrelated site. The documentation lives on a GitHub Pages site, and the repository README itself holds no installation instructions.

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