Laravel Knowledge Base

A knowledge base you can put in front of customers, your team, or both — in one installation. Diátaxis-shaped articles, search-first navigation, revisions, reader feedback and a freshness clock. Ships Livewire 3/4 components and Blade views you can publish and restyle.

composer require nyoncode/laravel-knowledge-base
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=knowledge-base-migrations
php artisan migrate

That is the whole install. The base mounts itself at /napoveda.

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What it is opinionated about

Three decisions are baked in, because a knowledge base that gets them wrong fails quietly rather than loudly.

Search first, tree second. Readers arrive with a sentence, not a place in a hierarchy. The landing page is one autofocused field; the category grid is what catches the people whose sentence failed. <livewire:kb.search /> puts the same search behind ⌘K on every page of your app.

Status and visibility are two questions. Status is our readiness (draft → in review → published). Visibility is whose eyes (internal / public). A finished internal runbook is published and internal. One combined "publish" button is how private notes reach the open web, so there isn't one.

A page nobody has confirmed is suspect. Every article carries a review clock. Past its date it says so to the reader, in a banner, and appears in the maintainer's queue. A knowledge base does not break — it rots, and this is the only thing that surfaces it.

The four kinds

Articles declare what they are for (Diátaxis), which drives the badge, the reading order inside a category, and the one-line promise under the title:

Kind	For a reader who…
Tutorial	is learning, and needs a guaranteed-working first run
How-to	already has a goal and needs the steps
Reference	knows what they want and needs the exact value
Background	wants to understand why it works this way

Choose your editor

Markdown, TipTap or blocks — per installation, and the format is stored per article, so switching the default later leaves everything written before it rendering exactly as it did.

// config/knowledge-base.php'editors' => [
'default' => 'markdown', // 'tiptap' | 'blocks' | your own'drivers' => [
NyonCode\KnowledgeBase\Editors\MarkdownEditor::class,
NyonCode\KnowledgeBase\Editors\RichTextEditor::class,
NyonCode\KnowledgeBase\Editors\BlockEditor::class,
],
],

Markdown is the default deliberately: no JavaScript, clean diffs between revisions, and it outlives the next editor fashion. Pick another when the people writing will not write markdown — a real reason, and the only good one.

TipTap ships as a shell, not a bundle. Bundling an editor would push a second copy of ProseMirror into apps that already have one, so the host builds it, exposes window.kbEditor(el, { content, onChange }) and flips editors.tiptap.bundled to true. Until then the driver is not offered at all — an editor that renders an inert box is worse than one that is absent.

You do not have to write that adapter. The package ships it as source in resources/js/kb-editor.js — every extension the editor's toolbar promises, already wired to the contract. Point your bundler at it and install the TipTap packages it imports; they stay your dependencies, at your version, which is the whole point of not shipping a bundle.

// vite.config.jsexportdefaultdefineConfig({// Vite resolves a symlinked path repository to its real location, where// there is no node_modules to resolve @tiptap/* from.resolve: {preserveSymlinks: true},plugins: [laravel({input: ['vendor/nyoncode/laravel-knowledge-base/resources/js/kb-editor.js',],})],});

Your own is one class:

finalclass NotionLikeEditor implements EditorDriver
{
publicfunctionname(): string { return'notion'; }
publicfunctionlabel(): string { return'Notion-like'; }
publicfunctionformat(): ContentFormat { return ContentFormat::Blocks; }
publicfunctionview(): string { return'editors.notion'; }
publicfunctionisAvailable(): bool { returntrue; }
}

Make it yours

Everything replaceable is a contract with a shipped default:

Contract	Default	Replace it when…
KnowledgeAudience	gate ability, else any signed-in user	"internal" means customers, tenants, one admin…
ArticleSearch	portable SQL, weighted by column	you outgrow a few thousand articles → Scout
ContentRenderer	CommonMark / rich text / blocks	you want a syntax highlighter, or a fourth format
EditorDriver	markdown / TipTap / blocks	you have your own writing surface

$this->app->bind(KnowledgeAudience::class, MyTenantAudience::class);

Read KnowledgeAudience before you ship. The default is right for a single-team back office and wrong for a customer portal, and the failure mode is a leak. Two methods, both needed: canSeeInternal() styles the UI, scopeVisible() is what actually keeps rows out of the answer — hiding a link is not the same as not returning the row.

Components

Component	What it is
<livewire:kb.home />	search + category map
<livewire:kb.search />	⌘K palette, drop it in your layout
<livewire:kb.category :category="$c" />	one collection, grouped by kind
<livewire:kb.article :article="$slug" />	the page, with contents and feedback
<livewire:kb.admin.articles />	maintenance queue
<livewire:kb.admin.editor :article="$a" />	write

Registered under kb.*; register your own class under the same name last and yours wins.

Views

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=knowledge-base-views

Tailwind utility classes, no build step, dark mode throughout. The prose block is marked .kb-prose so you can scope typography without fighting the rest.

Testing

composer test
composer analyse

License

MIT.