Makefile in template?

[rowanc1]

Wondering if including a Makefile might be a good idea? To me this is very helpful in onboarding to repositories as I can look to see what the commands are, and my previous relationships with sphinx always had Makefiles I believe?!

Even if they are small wrappers on the jupyter-book CLI make build/html/docs/serve

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[TomasBeuzen]

Hi @rowanc1 - thanks for the comment! Could you expand more on what you'd like to see (based on your use cases). At least for me, the jupyter-book CLI takes care of mostly everything. My simple workflow is pretty much as follows:

1. jupyter-book clean (clean files, not necessary but I like to start from a clean slate)
2. jupyter-book build (this is really what I would have used make for in the past I suppose)
3. A git push would trigger the online deployment for me (but that depends on having GH Actions set up and if you actually want to deploy online)

I usually speed up the build by caching executed notebooks.

But if others are using the CLI in a different way that would benefit from a Makefile I'd be interested to hear.

[rowanc1]

The make file that I just created is below. :)

I completely agree that it is a bit redundant, my reflex, I suppose, is to reach for make commands over various CLIs because I move between a lot of projects and am forgetful.

The watch and serve commands below are nice to have when I am writing and I hit save, then the book rebuilds! Some of the integrations that I am building to jupyter-book also require the book to be run locally on a web server rather than off the file system.

.PHONY: build serve watch

build:
	jupyter-book build .

watch:
	nodemon -w './**' -e yml,md,ipynb --exec jupyter-book build .

serve:
	cd _build/html; python -m http.server 9000

[TomasBeuzen]

Awesome thanks! That's helpful (and interesting to know how you're using JB). I'm going to leave this issue open for a bit to see if there's any other interest :)