Skeleton to build a GitBook and Deploy it to GitHub Pages

Skeleton to build a book with gitbook and deploy it to GitHub pages

Instrucciones para los autores

Assume you want to create a book inside the Github organization my-organization with name my-repo. Follow these steps:

• Install git
• Install NodeJS
• Install gulp globally: npm i -g gulp

• Install gitbook in your computer

  • Install gitbook-cli:

          npm i -g gitbook-cli
    

• Join GitHub
• Install hub (optional)
• The skeleton of the book is hosted in this repo: https://github.com/etsiiull/gitbook-skeleton
  • Fork or clone this repo hub clone etsiiull/gitbook-skeleton my-repo
  • Alternatively, clone the book in your machine using: git clone https://github.com/etsiiull/gitbook-skeleton.git
• Modify the files gulpfile.js and package.json
  • Substitute all the appearances of etsiiull by my-organization in gulpfile.js,
  • Substitute all the appearances of gitbook-skeleton by my-repo in gulpfile.js, package.json
  • Change the name, description, author,keywords, etc. inpackage.json`
• Remove the origin remote: git remote rm origin
  • Or alternatively rename the remote git remote rename origin etsiiull
• Create the new repo in GitHub: hub create my-organization/my-repo

  [~/TFGsrc/my-repo(master)]$ git remote -v
  origin    https://github.com/my-organization/my-repo.git (fetch)
  origin    https://github.com/my-organization/my-repo.git (push)
  

• In GitHub go to the settings of the new repo and set the master branch as the branch for GitHub pages
• Run gitbook install to install plugins from registry.
• Install the dependencies of this book/project npm i
• Write in markdown the contents of your book
• Compile the book with gulp build to produce the HTML
• To deploy your book in GitHub write gulp deploy
• Visit https://my-repo.github.io to see the result
• For more details see the section Markdown and GitBook