Installation of Gitbook
Installation
sudo npm install -g gitbook-cli
gitbook -V
Then it will strat to install gitbook and output the version like this GitBook version: 3.2.3
Usage
In the beginning, we can use this to init the directory :
gitbook init
It will generate a file called as SUMMARY.md, and we can edit the every topic inside (Of course, we need to follow the format of gitbook). After that, we can use again gitbook init that it will follow each topic to create their directory (folder) automatically.
To deploy the gitbook :
gitbook serve
You can change the default port by this command.
The default port is 4000, then suppose I wanna use 4001.
gitbook --port 4001 serve
For example:
$ gitbook --port 4001 serve
Live reload server started on port: 35729
Press CTRL+C to quit ...
info: 7 plugins are installed
info: loading plugin "livereload"... OK
info: loading plugin "highlight"... OK
info: loading plugin "search"... OK
info: loading plugin "lunr"... OK
info: loading plugin "sharing"... OK
info: loading plugin "fontsettings"... OK
info: loading plugin "theme-default"... OK
info: found 1 pages
info: found 0 asset files
info: >> generation finished with success in 0.2s !
Starting server ...
Serving book on http://localhost:4001
Then we can go to localhost:4001 to check it.
Plugin
Convert the ebook to other format
sudo apt-get install calibre
For emample:
Convert to PDF
gitbook pdf
Enable the gitpage feature on Gitlab
Reference: