KB4IT 0.7.0

A static website generator based on Asciidoctor sources.

Introduction

KB4IT is a static website generator based on Asciidoctor sources mainly for technical documentation purposes.

Motivations

• The main aim is to provide an easy way to write technical documentation.

• Don’t care about the formatting and focus on the contents.

• To allow teams to manage their knowledge database easily.

• Do not depend on third software products like word processors or complex web applications.

Features

Pros

• Writing documentation: Documents must be in Asciidoctor format which is easy to learn.

• Finding documents: Once a document is converted to html, properties can be browsed. Moreover, property pages have filters and a search entry to filter by title.

• Publishing your repository: all necessary files are inside a directory. Browse it or copy it to your web server.

• Serverless: There is no need for a web server. Of course, you can use one if you please.

• Smart compiling: Only those documents added or modified are compiled.

Cons

• No online editor: At this moment, KB4IT doesn’t include any online editor. You must create or edit your documents with your preferred editor.

• No dynamic search: KB4IT was developed to be as simple as possible. No dependencies at all excepting Asciidoctor (as text processor and publishing toolchain) and Python (the programming language used).

Installation

From source

python3 setup.py install --user

Pypi package

pip3 install kb4it --user

Execution

The most typical usage would be:

$HOME/.local/bin/kb4it -sp /path/to/asciidoctor/sources -tp /path/to/target/directory --log DEBUG

Download

Get the code from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/t00m/KB4IT

Credits

• Python

• Asciidoctor

• UIKit