Gitbook has changed its services and some of our stuff no longer builds. It would be nice to use some tooling that doesn't depend upon a service going away ... and I'd love to not have to use Ruby.

Ideally, whatever solution we use going forward should satisfy these conditions:

• allow us to continue using the content we've created in markdown with no (or very few changes)
• be usable without having to install tons of dependencies on our systems (e.g., support docker usage)
• not be part of some pay-for-service that could be taken away at any point in time
• support generating and viewing books locally
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  One option that is used to generate the copious markdown-based books in the Rust programming language community is this one:
• https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook

I'll see if it meets our other criteria ...a

It would be nice if we could just run a script that parsed the LFE reference docs and generate a new version of this book for every release ...

@hdurer I've just finished pushing up some changes:

• there's a target for installing npm
• a system-specific NPM_CMD is generated
• gitbook install has been added to the setup target

Let me know if this breaks anything on your system/Linux ...