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About Gitbook

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Daniel Tolbert edited this page Mar 27, 2018 · 1 revision

Gitbook is a markdown -> HTML converter tool that is extensible through plugins. The tool is written in NodeJS and uses the NPM infrastructure to manage versions and plugins.

The Bandwidth documentation is hosted using Github Pages.

Github pages downsides

No HTTPS ⚠️ Will be an issue soon(er) than later
Awkward branch naming conventions
Accident prone if you get lazy and --force push to the wrong branch 🙀

Github pages upsides

Easy to manage (just git)
Source code and HTML is open sour