Sites using mdBook
Rust-based tool for creating documentation books from Markdown files.
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See how alerts work41 sites
38 found by StackScope, 3 via launch platforms
- StackScope Wider Web 26
- StackScope Discovery (Indie) 12
- Hacker News 2
- PeerPush 1
mdBook has been detected on 41 launches we've crawled. The 7-day rolling share is 0.0%, roughly steady week on week. Most recent detection: 100 Days of Kubernetes: Learn Kubernetes Step by Step, yesterday.
It's most commonly paired with clipboard.js, highlight.js, and Lunr.js. By product type, the launches using it are most often Developer Tools (67%), Education (17%), and Productivity (8%).
What kind of products ship with mdBook
24 launches
Domain endings using mdBook
41 sites
- .dev 29.27%
- .com 19.51%
- .io 14.63%
- .org 14.63%
- .ca 4.88%
Share of new sites using mdBook
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before July 2026. Chart starts at first detection.
The shaded parts of the chart are measured against a different set of sites.
Grey: until 8 July 2026 we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well.
Amber: on 10 September 2026 we improved our infrastructure so we can index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from that date. We record each site as it was when we found it.
The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time, so it can step at these lines without the technology itself changing. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.
Documentation leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
Starlight
|
0.01% | 65.60% |
| #2 | – |
Mintlify
|
<0.01% | 12.75% |
| #3 | – | mdBook Current page | <0.01% | 4.51% |
| #4 | – |
Redocly
|
<0.01% | 3.19% |
| #5 | ▲2 |
MDN Web Docs
|
<0.01% | 2.20% |
Percentages show adoption among indie launches: the share of all analysed launches, and of launches using any Documentation tool. All 30 in Documentation →
Often used with
| Tool | Sites |
|---|---|
clipboard.js
|
41 |
highlight.js
|
41 |
| Lunr.js | 40 |
| elasticlunr.js | 40 |
GitHub Pages
|
25 |
Tools most often detected on the same sites as mdBook.
Recent launches we can show
15 of the 41 sites using mdBook are product launches we list individually. The other 26 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. How StackScope Discovery works
Introduction - Entwurfswerk
Productivity
Rust ❤️ pre-existing C++ - Rust ♡ Existing C++
Developer Tools
Syq
Introduction - MCP Conformance Toolkit
Developer Tools
Introduction - Cowboy
Developer Tools
Introduction - Fatou
Productivity
hotpath-rs
Developer Tools
Introduction - Badness
Getting Started - git-sidecar
Developer Tools
Introduction - zecd
Crypto
Introduction - Jennifer Programming Language
Developer Tools
Showing the most recent 12 of 15.
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