​Gitbook is originally a tool for developers to build documentation. We use it to write and and maintain documentation that is mostly static, i.e. does not change often, and does not need to be edited by many people. This distinguishes it from CodiMD which we use for more dynamic documents that many people collaborate on.
One example of a Gitbook is this page, our docs. It can be either edited through the Gitbook editor (accessible only to people invited to our Gitbook team) or by using GitHub where the files are stored.
FAQ
I want to contribute a small section or propose a small change to the docs.