# honkit/honkit

:book: HonKit is building beautiful books using Markdown - Fork of GitBook

Repository: https://github.com/honkit/honkit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/honkit
Homepage: https://honkit.netlify.app
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: book, plugin, gitbook, honkit, ebook, markdown, asciidoc, javascript
Last push: 2026-08-11T13:58:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 88, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2272, "days_push": 22, "days_rel": 80, "gap_med": 8, "n_releases_24m": 14}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3497, forks 267 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:07.401965+00:00)

## What it is
HonKit is a Node.js command line tool and library for building beautiful books and documentation from Markdown or AsciiDoc files, forked from the deprecated GitBook (Legacy). It outputs static websites or ebooks (PDF, ePub, Mobi) and supports GitBook plugins for easy migration.

## Use cases
- build a documentation site from markdown files
- generate a pdf or epub ebook from markdown
- migrate a legacy GitBook project
- create an enterprise manual or internal handbook
- self-publish a technical book with git and markdown
- write multi-language documentation with a glossary

## When to choose
- you want a GitBook Legacy-compatible toolchain with existing gitbook-plugin-* support
- you need both website and ebook (PDF/ePub/Mobi) output from one source
- you prefer writing books in Markdown or AsciiDoc with a nice default theme

## When to avoid
- you need a modern docs platform with live search and versioning like Docusaurus or MkDocs
- you want a hosted collaborative writing service rather than a local build tool
- you need heavy customization beyond the plugin ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: static-site-generator, cli, documentation, markdown, templating, pdf
- domain: documentation, developer-tools, web-development
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: gitbook-fork, ebook-generation, asciidoc, epub, mobi, book-builder, plugin-system, publishing, nodejs, docker

## Member repositories
- honkit/honkit (main) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:07.401965+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:35:52.299892+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/honkit/honkit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:07.401965+00:00, sha 15556fcb5466)
  - homepage: https://honkit.netlify.app (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:08.389979+00:00, sha b32bdbe4f2a2)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/honkit (fetched 2026-08-29T09:30:08.401285+00:00, sha 7a133fa08bff)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.