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DocuCommit is a self-hosted documentation platform that stores every page as plain Markdown in your own Git repository. There is no database: every edit is a real commit, so revision history, diffs, and restore come from Git itself, not from a vendor's revision table.
Non-developers get a WYSIWYG editor that writes clean Markdown (toggle to source anytime), a guided three-pane merge when two people edit the same page, and paragraph comments stored in a sidecar file so the Markdown stays clean. Developers get files they can grep, and AI agents can read the entire knowledge base with a git clone. No integration layer, no sync pipeline.
Includes full-text search, draw.io and Mermaid diagrams stored next to the Markdown, and one-click export to Markdown, HTML, and PDF. A desktop app for editing, plus a read-only server (Docker) that publishes the docs to the whole team. Leaving costs nothing: the repo is already yours, so there is nothing to migrate out of.
A startup from Sweden.
ShowdownJS DocuCommit.seBased on our record, ShowdownJS seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 9 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
So you're going to need a Markdown parser that produces HTML. But there's a question of where is the data coming from and where you you want to process it? If it's going to be all on the frontend like a text editor, use a JS library for it (a quick google search produces ShowdownJS). Source: over 3 years ago
Previously, I was required to implement the markdown support manually which meant that the use of public libraries was prohibited. My tool could only support limited styling elements such as header1, header2, links, bold and italics, but now I can finally let my tool have a full markdown support by using Showdown. - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago
The first two ages are very heavy on content so I decided to use markdown and tailwindโs typography plugin for styling. I also used showdown to fetch the markdown and turn it into HTML. The code for the above can be found on the siteโs GitHub repository. - Source: dev.to / almost 4 years ago
I'm using https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown for the core rendering-markdown functionality, with a bunch of additional listeners etc on top of it to fit it into the notion-style UX! Hope that helps :). Source: almost 4 years ago
It looks like it uses showdown as the engine. Source: about 4 years ago
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