Asciidoctor welcomes DocGist

DocGist is a URL proxy tool that converts AsciiDoc documents fetched from Gists (http://gist.github.com), GitHub repositories, Dropbox folders and other sources to HTML. The conversion to HTML is performed in the browser using the Asciidoctor.js JavaScript library (client-side) when the browser visits the proxy URL. DocGist is a hosted alternative to the Asciidoctor.js Live Preview extension for Chrome.

NOTE: The DocGist interface provides an input box for converting the original URL to the proxy URL.

Here's an example of DocGist in action, showing the Asciidoctor README in HTML. You'll likely agree that DocGist is the Gist viewer that doesn't suck.

DocGist is the brainchild of Anders Nawroth, engineer at Neo Technology and fellow Asciidoctor community member. He created DocGist as a foundation of GraphGist (http://gist.neo4j.org), an interactive documentation tool for the Neo4j database and Cypher query language.

DocGist has been instrumental to the success of Asciidoctor. After I hacked together the first working prototype of Asciidoctor.js, Anders took the next step by putting it to use in DocGist and GraphGist, proving what an important technology it is. We received valuable feedback based on its usage in those tools and it motivated us to align Asciidoctor.js with Asciidoctor core to ensure feature parity (https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/679). Since then, many great innovations have emerged based on Asciidoctor.js that have borrowed ideas from the DocGist project.

Therefore, it's fitting and very well-deserved that DocGist become part of the Asciidoctor family. I'm in communication with Anders to migrate the repository. I'd also like to make the tool available at http://gist.asciidoctor.org.

If you have any thoughts about this invitation and setting up http://gist.asciidoctor.org, please feel free to share.

Thank you Anders for your amazing contributions to the Asciidoctor community and for being part of it!

Cheers,