outline

The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

⭐ 38,900 stars on GitHub · 🍴 3,343 forks · 📜 License: other · 💻 Language: TypeScript

What is outline?

Ditching bloated enterprise wikis for a modern, markdown-native alternative is finally a realistic option for self-hosting teams. By combining real-time collaboration with an aggressively clean React and Node.js stack, you get a knowledge base

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ docker
• 🏷️ javascript
• 🏷️ mobx
• 🏷️ nodejs
• 🏷️ react
• 🏷️ slack
• 🏷️ wiki

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

The project supports Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/outline/outline.git
cd outline
docker compose up -d

Check the README in the repo for required env variables.

Minimum system requirements

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🎯 Benefits:

• One-command docker compose up -d deploy in 2 minutes
• Dedicated IPv4, root access, unmetered domestic bandwidth
• Daily snapshot backup
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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: outline/outline
• 🌐 Homepage: https://www.getoutline.com
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 13/06/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.