Bookdown

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 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.