In simple English
Growi is a team wiki and documentation tool. You write pages in markdown, which is a plain-text format for styling notes. Multiple people can edit the same page at the same time. You can host it on your own server for free. It requires some technical setup to get running.
What it is
Growi is a team collaboration platform built on Node.js and MongoDB. It features real-time collaborative editing, hierarchical page organization, and integrations with chat tools.
What it is good for
Teams that want a self-hosted alternative to proprietary knowledge bases and prefer writing documentation in markdown.
- Real-time collaborative editing for multiple users.
- Hierarchical page structure keeps documents organized.
- Integrates with Slack and chat tools.
- Requires setting up a database and container environment.
- Full-text search requires a separate search engine.
- Heavy memory needs when running all backing services.
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git clone https://github.com/growilabs/growi.git cd growi docker compose up -d