A glossary of common terms used throughout Jupyter Book.
[CommonMark](https://commonmark.org/)
A standard syntax of Markdown that is used across many communities and projects.
It is the base flavour of Markdown for Jupyter Notebook, and the base flavour
for {term}`MyST Markdown <MyST>` and Jupyter Book.
[ExecutableBookProject](https://executablebooks.org/en/latest/)
The project that supports and develops many of the core tools used by Jupyter Book.
[MyST Markdown](https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using/syntax.html)
[MyST](https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using/syntax.html)
A flavour of Markdown that was designed for use with the {term}`Sphinx` project.
It is a combination of {term}`CommonMark Markdown <CommonMark>` and a few extra
syntax pieces to support features of Sphinx, so that you can write Sphinx
documentation in plain Markdown. It is one of the
core technologies that Jupyter Book uses.
[MyST-Parser](https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
A parser for {term}`Sphinx` that allows it to read in content that is written
in MyST Markdown. It is also used by {term}`MyST-NB` to parse MyST Markdown
that is inside Jupyter notebooks.
[MyST-NB](https://myst-nb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
An extension for {term}`Sphinx` that uses the {term}`MyST-Parser <MyST>` to
parse Jupyter notebooks directly into Sphinx. This also allows users to write
MyST Markdown inside of notebooks that are parsed with Sphinx. It is one of the
core technologies that Jupyter Book uses.
[Sphinx](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/)
A documentation engine written in Python. Sphinx supports many features that are
necessary for scientific and scholarly publishing. It is one of the
core technologies that Jupyter Book uses.
[Binder](https://mybinder.org)
A free, public service for running reproducible interactive computing environments.
Binder is a 100% open source infrastructure that is run by members of the Jupyter
community. The underlying technology behind the Binder project is {term}`BinderHub`.
[BinderHub](https://binderhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
The underlying technology of mybinder.org, BinderHub is an open source tool that
runs on Kubernetes and utilizes a {term}`JupyterHub` in order to provide live, reproducible
interactive computing environments that users host on GitHub.
[Google Colab](https://colab.research.google.com/)
A Jupyter Notebook service from Google that provides access to free computing resources,
including GPUs and TPUs.
[JupyterHub](https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)
A core open source tool from the Jupyter community, JupyterHub allows you to
deploy an application that provides remote data science environments to multiple
users. It can be deployed in the cloud, or on your own hardware.
[Jupyter-Cache](https://github.com/executablebooks/jupyter-cache)
An open source tool for executing and caching the outputs of Jupyter Notebook
content. Outputs are cached in a hidden folder so that they do not need to be
included directly with your source files.
[Sphinx Book Theme](https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-book-theme)
A customized version of the
[PyData Sphinx Theme](https://pydata-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
that defines the look and feel of Jupyter Book.