Thanks for sharing my project! I started building BookStack just over 9 years ago to suit a need at work, and have been improving & maintaining it since. I left full time employment three years ago and have been focusing on BookStack since, with my living costs now covered via project donations, sponsorships & support services, and the growth of these continue as shown in my blogpost here: https://www.bookstackapp.com/blog/9-years-of-bookstack/#fina....
The platform has been designed for ease-of-use, with mixed-technical-skill workplace use in mind. The design and content structure is (purposefully) quite opinionated though so does not suit all use-cases, but for many it works quite well.
Technically it's built as quite a technically simple PHP/Laravel/MySQL stack with custom JavaScript sprinkled in where needed. The default WYSIWYG editor is TinyMCE based, although due to TinyMCE license changes I'm currently building a lexical-fork-based new editor.
The software is platform abstract, I've ran it on Debian & Ubuntu, RHEL & Fedora, Arch, OpenBSD and Windows systems. I stay out of system specific packaging methods though to avoid the extra maintenance burden, although community offers do form to enable this in some cases (like with BookStack in Arch's AUR).
The platform has been designed for ease-of-use, with mixed-technical-skill workplace use in mind. The design and content structure is (purposefully) quite opinionated though so does not suit all use-cases, but for many it works quite well.
Technically it's built as quite a technically simple PHP/Laravel/MySQL stack with custom JavaScript sprinkled in where needed. The default WYSIWYG editor is TinyMCE based, although due to TinyMCE license changes I'm currently building a lexical-fork-based new editor.
If you'd like to understand the project more, a project FAQ can be found on our site here: https://www.bookstackapp.com/about/project-faq/
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