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A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React.
https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

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A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React.

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# La Suite Docs: Collaborative Text Editing



**Docs, where your notes can become knowledge through live collaboration.**



Docs is an open-source collaborative editor that helps teams write, organize, and share knowledge together - in real time.



![Live collaboration demo](/docs/assets/docs_live_collaboration_light.gif)



## What is Docs?



Docs is an open-source alternative to tools like Notion or Google Docs, focused on:



- Real-time collaboration

- Clean, structured documents

- Knowledge organization

- Data ownership & self-hosting



***Built for public organizations, companies, and open communities.***



## Why use Docs?



### Writing



- Rich-text & Markdown editing

- Slash commands & block system

- Beautiful formatting

- Offline editing

- Optional AI writing helpers (rewrite, summarize, translate, fix typos)



### Collaboration



- Live cursors & presence

- Comments & sharing

- Granular access control



### Knowledge management



- Subpages & hierarchy

- Searchable content



### Export/Import & interoperability



- Import to `.docx` and `.md`

- Export to `.docx`, `.odt`, `.pdf`



## Try Docs



Experience Docs instantly - no installation required.



- 🔗 [Open a live demo document][demo]

- 🌍 [Browse public instances][instances]



[demo]: https://docs.la-suite.eu/docs/9137bbb5-3e8a-4ff7-8a36-fcc4e8bd57f4/

[instances]: /docs/instances.md



## Self-hosting



Docs supports Kubernetes, Docker Compose, and community-provided methods such as Nix and YunoHost.



Get started with self-hosting: [Installation guide](/docs/installation/README.md)



> [!WARNING]

> Some advanced features (for example: `Export as PDF`) rely on XL packages from Blocknote.

> These packages are licensed under GPL and are **not MIT-compatible**

>

> You can run Docs **without these packages** by building with:

>

> ```bash

> PUBLISH_AS_MIT=true

> ```

>

> This builds an image of Docs without non-MIT features.

>

> More details can be found in [environment variables](/docs/env.md)



## Local Development (for contributors)



Run Docs locally for development and testing.



> [!WARNING]

> This setup is intended **for development and testing only**.

> It uses Minio as an S3-compatible storage backend, but any S3-compatible service can be used.



### Prerequisites



- Docker

- Docker Compose

- GNU Make



Verify installation:



```bash

docker -v

docker compose version

```



> If you encounter permission errors, you may need to use `sudo`, or add your user to the `docker` group.



### Bootstrap the project



The easiest way to start is using GNU Make:



```bash

make bootstrap FLUSH_ARGS='--no-input'

```



This builds the `app-dev` and `frontend-dev` containers, installs dependencies, runs database migrations, and compiles translations.



It is recommended to run this command after pulling new code.



Start services:



```bash

make run

```



Open 



Default credentials (development only):



```md

username: impress

password: impress

```



### Frontend development mode



For frontend work, running outside Docker is often more convenient:



```bash

make frontend-development-install

make run-frontend-development

```



### Backend only



Starting all services except the frontend container:



```bash

make run-backend

```



### Tests & Linting



```bash

make frontend-test

make frontend-lint

```



Backend tests can be run without docker. This is useful to configure PyCharm or VSCode to do it. 

Removing docker for testing requires to overwrite some URL and port values that are different in and out of 

Docker. `env.d/development/common` contains all variables, some of them having to be overwritten by those in

`env.d/development/common.test`.



### Demo content



Create a basic demo site:



```bash

make demo

```



### More Make targets



To check all available Make rules:



```bash

make help

```



### Django admin



Create a superuser:



```bash

make superuser

```



Admin UI: 



## Contributing



This project is community-driven and PRs are welcome.



- [Contribution guide](CONTRIBUTING.md)

- [Translations](https://crowdin.com/project/lasuite-docs)

- [Chat with us!](https://matrix.to/#/#docs-official:matrix.org)



## Roadmap



Curious where Docs is headed?



Explore upcoming features, priorities and long-term direction on our [public roadmap](https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/docs/d1d3788e-c619-41ff-abe8-2d079da2f084/).



## License 📝



This work is released under the MIT License (see [LICENSE](https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs/blob/main/LICENSE)).



While Docs is a public-driven initiative, our license choice is an invitation for private sector actors to use, sell and contribute to the project.



## Credits ❤️



### Stack



Docs is built on top of [Django Rest Framework](https://www.django-rest-framework.org/), [Next.js](https://nextjs.org/), [ProseMirror](https://prosemirror.net/), [BlockNote.js](https://www.blocknotejs.org/), [HocusPocus](https://tiptap.dev/docs/hocuspocus/introduction), and [Yjs](https://yjs.dev/). We thank the contributors of all these projects for their awesome work!



We are proud sponsors of [BlockNotejs](https://www.blocknotejs.org/) and [Yjs](https://yjs.dev/).



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### Gov ❤️ open source



Docs is the result of a joint initiative led by the French 🇫🇷 ([DINUM](https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/dinum/)) Government and German 🇩🇪 government ([ZenDiS](https://zendis.de/)).



We are always looking for new public partners (we are currently onboarding the Netherlands 🇳🇱), feel free to [contact us](mailto:docs@numerique.gouv.fr) if you are interested in using or contributing to Docs.





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