Documenting with BookStack
The wiki you are reading, documented: the web stack behind it and how content is organised into shelves, books, and pages.
Why a wiki (and why this one)
A lab you can't explain is just a pile of running processes. Documentation is what turns it into ...
The stack behind it
BookStack is a PHP web application, so the box runs a fairly classic web stack: Docs-Server (10.1...
Shelves, books, pages
BookStack's content model is just three levels, and these docs use them deliberately: Shelf "Bu...
The fun part: these docs wrote themselves (via the API)
Here's the meta bit. BookStack has a full REST API, and every shelf, book, and page in this docum...
Lessons on documenting the lab
Document for the reader you were. The most valuable pages explain the why and the mistakes, beca...