mdtome

Markdown Tome - A Gitbook clone.

• Fast
• Simple
• Compatible with Gitbook structure(s)
• Produces optimized builds
• Creates sitemaps by default
• Can generate PDFs
• Google Analytics and Adsense built in by default

Example: https://andersevenrud.github.io/mdtome

Requirements

Node 8.x or later.

Installation

npm install -g mdtome

You can also install this locally in your projects.

Configuration

Create a file named .mdtome

module.exports = {
  input: '.',
  title: 'My Awesome Tome',
  url: 'http://my-website.com'
};

See src/config.js for a full list of options. TODO: Add table here

Regular Gitbook book.json file is also supported, but will not allow you to make any customization.

Usage

The generated output will be in _book/ by default.

CLI

Simply run this command in your project root directory:

mdtome [--input=path] [--output=path] [--pdf=path] [--verbose] [--watch]

Or if you have mdtome as a dependency in your project:

npx mdtome [--input=path] [--output=path] [--pdf=path] [--verbose] [--watch]

Note, use NODE_ENV=production mdtome ... to make an optimized build.

API

const mdtome = require('mdtome');

mdtome({
  /* Configuration options here */
  /* Same as the .mdtome file */
}) // -> Promise

Plugins

module.exports = {
  // Per page render
  render: html => Promise.resolve(html)

  // Template loading
  template => (html, pdf) => Promise.resolve(html)
};

Benchmarks

Using https://github.com/bagder/everything-curl

• Gitbook: 23.79s user 0.73s system 108% cpu 22.495 total
• mdtome: 4.18s user 0.18s system 110% cpu 3.952 total

System: i5-4670K + SSD

TODO

• Generation: Glossary
• Generation: Languages
• Plugin: Typed quotes
• Customization: CSS/JS entry points
• UI: Highlight links based on scroll

License

MIT