What is mdBook built with?
mdBook is a Rust repo built with axum and Tokio. It makes its content with handlebars, html5ever, and pulldown-cmark and deploys with tracing, listenfd, and tracing-subscriber. It has 20,533 written lines, with 73 test files.
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Backend
The base 1
- axum1 file
Support
The base 1
- Tokio1 file
Content 3
- handlebars4 files
- html5ever4 files
- pulldown-cmark4 files
Deploy 3
tracing25 files
- listenfd1 file
Tools 2
clap5 files
Other 22
- anyhow27 files
- serde_json9 files
- serde8 files
- tempfile6 files
- ego-tree5 files
- toml5 files
- ignore4 files
- indexmap2 files
- pathdiff2 files
- regex2 files
- futures-util1 file
- hex1 file
- memchr1 file
- notify1 file
- notify-debouncer-mini1 file
- opener1 file
- semver1 file
- serde_derive1 file
- sha21 file
- shlex1 file
- tower-http1 file
- walkdir1 file
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