This is a guide for creating your own book using Jupyter Notebooks and Jekyll. Book content is written in markdown and Jupyter Notebooks, and jupyter-book converts these into a book fit for hosting on the web.

Install the command-line interface

First off, make sure you have the CLI installed so that you can work with Jupyter Book. The Jupyter-Book CLI allows you to create, build, upgrade, and otherwise control your Jupyter Book. You can install it via pip with the following command:

pip install jupyter-book

The book building process

Building a Jupyter Book broadly consists of three steps:

1. Create your book template. Jupyter Book expects a particular collection of files and folders that work with the Static Site Generator Jekyll. The anatomy of a Jupyter Book section covers the general structure of Jupyter Books, and the create your book template guide shows how to create your own book structure.
2. Convert each page of your book into HTML. We first create each page of your book into HTML. This converts your .ipynb, .md, etc files into HTML that can be understood by a website. It also uses your book's metadata to insert tags and other layout elements into each page's HTML. See the building each page's HTML section for more information.
3. Build your book's HTML from these pages. Once we have HTML for each page, we can stitch them together for a book. At the end of this step, you should have standalone HTML that can be hosted online. See the build your book's html section for more information.
4. Host your book's HTML online. Once your book's HTML is built, you can host it online as a public website. This guide covers a few ways to do this.

To begin, check out the next section. You can follow this guide linearly, or use it as a reference later on.