simonplend / starter-book

A book starter to kickstart your writing journey 🎉

Book Starter

A starter built with gatsby to help you create books with ease.

• 📖 Create Book from markdown files
• 🖼 Generate PDF with Light and Dark Mode
• 📚 Generates Epub file
• 👩‍💻 Creates a preview site

PDF Light Example

PDF Dark Example

Epub Example

Website Example (add ?theme=dark to preview dark version)

How to use

1. First git clone and cd into the folder

git clone [e-mail]:SaraVieira/starter-book.git my-book && cd my-book

2. Edit your book in the book.md

3. Set you book properties in bookInfo.js

4. Run yarn build

   4.1. You can also run yarn build:site to build just the preview site

   4.2. Or run yarn build:book for the PDF and Epub files

5. To get the .mobi file download the Kindle Previewer and drag your .epub file and it creates a kindle compatible file.

6. Profit??

FAQ

How can I edit the CSS?

The CSS is located in ./src/styles/style.scss and you can edit it there. At the bottom you will see all the styles specific for the dark version.

How can I change the Prism theme?

I import the prism theme in ./src/pages/index.js and in there you can use any theme or make your own and use it by importing. I made a tool you can see here that helps you make your VSCode theme into a prism theme easily.

The chapters are screwed up in my version

I use a really HUUUUGE hack to get them, I go through every H1 created by the markdown file and make that into a chapter so I can only recognize H1's as chapters at least until I find a better way :( If you want to try and fix that the code is at ./generate-book/epub.js.

Why?

I built this in order to be able to publish a book I wrote and I think it may be useful for someone so I made it open source.

Books using this:

• Opinionated Guide to React

Let me know if you are using this to make your book :)

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Any issues please make a PR or file a bug

Licensed under the MIT license