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<h1 id="creating-a-book"><a class="header" href="#creating-a-book">Creating a Book</a></h1>
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<p>Once you have the <code>mdbook</code> CLI tool installed, you can use it to create and render a book.</p>
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<h2 id="initializing-a-book"><a class="header" href="#initializing-a-book">Initializing a book</a></h2>
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<p>The <code>mdbook init</code> command will create a new directory containing an empty book for you to get started.
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Give it the name of the directory that you want to create:</p>
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<pre><code class="language-sh">mdbook init my-first-book
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<p>It will ask a few questions before generating the book.
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After answering the questions, you can change the current directory into the new book:</p>
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<pre><code class="language-sh">cd my-first-book
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<p>There are several ways to render a book, but one of the easiest methods is to use the <code>serve</code> command, which will build your book and start a local webserver:</p>
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<pre><code class="language-sh">mdbook serve --open
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<p>The <code>--open</code> option will open your default web browser to view your new book.
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You can leave the server running even while you edit the content of the book, and <code>mdbook</code> will automatically rebuild the output <em>and</em> automatically refresh your web browser.</p>
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<p>Check out the <a href="../cli/index.html">CLI Guide</a> for more information about other <code>mdbook</code> commands and CLI options.</p>
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<h2 id="anatomy-of-a-book"><a class="header" href="#anatomy-of-a-book">Anatomy of a book</a></h2>
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<p>A book is built from several files which define the settings and layout of the book.</p>
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<h3 id="booktoml"><a class="header" href="#booktoml"><code>book.toml</code></a></h3>
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<p>In the root of your book, there is a <code>book.toml</code> file which contains settings for describing how to build your book.
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This is written in the <a href="https://toml.io/">TOML markup language</a>.
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The default settings are usually good enough to get you started.
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When you are interested in exploring more features and options that mdBook provides, check out the <a href="../format/configuration/index.html">Configuration chapter</a> for more details.</p>
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<p>A very basic <code>book.toml</code> can be as simple as this:</p>
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<pre><code class="language-toml">[book]
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<h3 id="summarymd"><a class="header" href="#summarymd"><code>SUMMARY.md</code></a></h3>
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<p>The next major part of a book is the summary file located at <code>src/SUMMARY.md</code>.
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This file contains a list of all the chapters in the book.
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Before a chapter can be viewed, it must be added to this list.</p>
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<p>Here's a basic summary file with a few chapters:</p>
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<pre><code class="language-md"># Summary
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[Introduction](README.md)
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- [My First Chapter](my-first-chapter.md)
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- [Nested example](nested/README.md)
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- [Sub-chapter](nested/sub-chapter.md)
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<p>Try opening up <code>src/SUMMARY.md</code> in your editor and adding a few chapters.
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If any of the chapter files do not exist, <code>mdbook</code> will automatically create them for you.</p>
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<p>For more details on other formatting options for the summary file, check out the <a href="../format/summary.html">Summary chapter</a>.</p>
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<h3 id="source-files"><a class="header" href="#source-files">Source files</a></h3>
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<p>The content of your book is all contained in the <code>src</code> directory.
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Each chapter is a separate Markdown file.
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Typically, each chapter starts with a level 1 heading with the title of the chapter.</p>
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<pre><code class="language-md"># My First Chapter
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The organization of the files will correspond to the HTML files generated, so keep in mind that the file layout is part of the URL of each chapter.</p>
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<p>While the <code>mdbook serve</code> command is running, you can open any of the chapter files and start editing them.
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Each time you save the file, <code>mdbook</code> will rebuild the book and refresh your web browser.</p>
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<p>Check out the <a href="../format/markdown.html">Markdown chapter</a> for more information on formatting the content of your chapters.</p>
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<p>All other files in the <code>src</code> directory will be included in the output.
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So if you have images or other static files, just include them somewhere in the <code>src</code> directory.</p>
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<h2 id="publishing-a-book"><a class="header" href="#publishing-a-book">Publishing a book</a></h2>
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<p>Once you've written your book, you may want to host it somewhere for others to view.
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The first step is to build the output of the book.
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This can be done with the <code>mdbook build</code> command in the same directory where the <code>book.toml</code> file is located:</p>
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<p>This will generate a directory named <code>book</code> which contains the HTML content of your book.
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You can then place this directory on any web server to host it.</p>
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<p>For more information about publishing and deploying, check out the <a href="../continuous-integration.html">Continuous Integration chapter</a> for more.</p>
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