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Docsify vs Gitbook: What are the differences?

What is Docsify? A documentation site generator without the static html files. Docsify generates your documentation website on the fly without generating static html files. Instead, it loads and parses your Markdown files and displays them as a website.

What is Gitbook? Document Everything! For you, your users and your team. It is a modern documentation platform where teams can document everything from products, to APIs and internal knowledge-bases. It is a place to think and track ideas for you & your team.

Docsify and Gitbook belong to "Documentation as a Service & Tools" category of the tech stack.

Docsify is an open source tool with 10.7K GitHub stars and 2.2K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Docsify's open source repository on GitHub.

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      What is Docsify?

      Docsify generates your documentation website on the fly without generating static html files. Instead, it loads and parses your Markdown files and displays them as a website.

      What is Gitbook?

      It is a modern documentation platform where teams can document everything from products, to APIs and internal knowledge-bases. It is a place to think and track ideas for you & your team.

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