GitBook Theme - for websites focusing on code

This is based on the default theme for GitBook since version 3.0.0. Currently there are no big changes but some bug fixes and a site title added to the top of the sidebar.

An example snapshot:

Example configuration (book.json):

{
  "title": "Site Title",
  "author": "Author Name",
  "authorHomepage": "http://www.example.com",
  "baiduStatisticsCode": "",
  "description": "site description",
  "language": "zh-hans",
  "copyright": "All Rights Reserved",
  "variables": {
    "homePage": "/"
  },
  "plugins": [
    "theme-code",
    "splitter",
    "prism",
    "folding-chapters",
    "-sharing"
  ],
  "pluginsConfig": {
    "theme-default": {
      "showLevel": true
    }
  }
}

To developers

If you want to develop GitBook theme and publish it to npm repository, you should name your package to somewhat like gitbook-plugin-theme-themename. For details, please refer to the official online document. Here are some tips for you.

Tip 1: Test your plugin locally

In the plugin's folder, run:

npm link

Then in your book's folder:

npm link gitbook-plugin-plugin-name

Tip 2: build on base of default official theme for GitBook

Actually, this project is also built on base of the GitBook Default Theme. However, if you want to use the default theme, you should remember to fix two bugs showed bellow (At first I would like to send a pull request to the author of that project, but when I open its github page, I found many PR unhandled, so I planned not to waste my time -_-):

In the file src/js/theme/navigation.js, you could find code like this:

// Get current page summary chapters
$chapters = $('.book-summary .summary .chapter')
    .filter(function() {
        var $link = $(this).children('a'),
            href  = null;
    
        // Chapter doesn't have a link
        if (!$link.length) {
            return false;
        }
        else {
            href = $link.attr('href').split('#')[0];
        }
    
        var resolvedRef = url.resolve(window.location.pathname, href);
        return window.location.pathname == resolvedRef;
    });

You should replace the code window.location.pathname == resolvedRef; to decodeURIComponent(window.location.pathname) == decodeURIComponent(resolvedRef).

The bug can be repeated if your url in the browser contains special characters such as Chinese, because equality judgement in the code will fail in that case: window.location.pathname will get the encoded characters, while $link.attr('href') will get the original characters.

Here is another bug, in _layouts/website/summary.html:

{% if article.path or article.url %}
    </a>
{% else %}
    </span>
{% endif %}

The code above should be replaced by the code below:

{% if (article.path and getPageByPath(article.path)) or article.url %}
    </a>
{% else %}
    </span>
{% endif %}

Otherwise, you will find sometime the HTML tag SPAN is closed by tag A.