How to edit your book locally

If you haven't installed gitbook already, make sure you have nodeJS installed and then run

npm install gitbook-cli -g

For more detailed instructions check out this page here.

If you still haven't cloned the book's repository, clone it:

git clone <repository URL>

Inside book's directory run:

gitbook install

Inside book's directory run:

gitbook serve

And open your browser on address http://localhost:4000

Just open it in your favourite editor/IDE and write some markdown!

Now comes the very interesting part. I will show you how easily, quickly and painlessly test your changes in real time.

It's just one command. gitbook serve. You've already run it and you have your book opened in a browser.

Now even more interesting part. When you edit your book, it is automatically reloaded in the browser:

Write your book, add your images, do whatever you want locally. Don't suffer of the slowness of the online editor!

For how-to submit your changes check the next chapter.