BookStack: The MIT-Licensed Wiki That Refuses to Be a Platform — and Why That's Its Superpower
BookStack is a 19k-star, MIT-licensed documentation wiki written in PHP on Laravel. A 5,000-word teardown of its opinionated shelf/book/chapter/page hierarchy, the 2026 Codeberg migration, why there is no plugin system or real-time collaboration, the bus-factor-1 risk, and exactly where your docs live and who can read them.