Outline tech stack
Outline is a collaborative knowledge base for growing teams. It runs on React, Koa, Sequelize, PostgreSQL and 1 more, read from its public repo outline/outline.
A team wiki with collaborative editing, search, and document sharing. Hosted subscriptions and a self-hosted edition are available. The reviewed code uses the Business Source License 1.1, with restrictions on competing document services.
Productivity · web · https://www.getoutline.com · 41,082 GitHub stars, BUSL-1.1 (2026-10-27)
Built with
Frontend
- React (package.json@f4e87b3eeef4: "react")
Backend
- Koa (package.json@f4e87b3eeef4: "koa")
- Sequelize (package.json@f4e87b3eeef4: "sequelize")
Database
- PostgreSQL (docker-compose.yml@f4e87b3eeef4: image: postgres)
- Redis (docker-compose.yml@f4e87b3eeef4: image: redis)

