mdBook
Create books from Markdown files.
Build a browsable book or documentation site from Markdown chapters with a Rust command-line tool. mdBook generates navigation, integrated search, and highlighted code blocks, with local preview while writing. Themes, preprocessors, and alternative backends extend the output, and Rust code examples can be tested as part of the build workflow.
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What is mdBook best for?
mdBook is a free Markdown tool best suited to publishing technical books, tutorials, and project documentation. It is available as CLI on macOS, Windows, Linux, CLI, and its source status is open source.
At a glance
- Pricing
- Free
- Source
- Open source
- Best for
- Publishing technical books, tutorials, and project documentation
Capabilities
- Markdown chapters
- integrated search
- syntax-highlighted code
- local preview
- themes and preprocessors
- Rust example testing
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