brockresearch/gitbook repository overview

⁠Gitbook Container

Containerizes the gitbook-cli and installs the gitbook server application. The directory /var/books is created as a mount point for books volume.

Running Gitbook Container

docker run -it \
--rm \
--name gitbook \
--volume "$(pwd)/test-book":/var/books \
--publish 4000:4000 \
brockresearch/gitbook /bin/sh

Once you launch the container you can create minimal book skeletons within the /var/books directory from within the container using the command gitbook init /var/books/<bookname here>. The will create a README.md and a SUMMARY.md which for the bare-minimum content for a gitbook. When the book skeleton in place change into the books directory and execute gitbook serve . The serve option of the gitbook command launches a NodeJS based web page that serves up the book's content.

NOTE: You may have to run the gitbook serve more that once before it recognizes the _book/gitbook/gitbook-plugin-sharing/buttons.js file does infact exists. There is a defect open since in 2016 regarding this issue.