Problems getting the docs to work locally with gitbook

[paulleader]

I'm trying to get gitbook working locally so I can see what I'm doing when I edit the docs.

I've installed gitbooks as per the instructions at (https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook)

However when I try to run the local server I get the following...

$ gitbook serve --debug
Live reload server started on port: 35729
Press CTRL+C to quit ...

info: loading book configuration....
warn: you should specify a gitbook version to use in your book.json, for example: 2.x.x
info: OK
info: load plugin gitbook-plugin-livereload ....OK
info: >> 1 plugins loaded
info: Parsing multilingual book, with 2 languages
info: Preparing language book en
info: Preparing language book ja
info: loading book configuration....OK
info: load plugin gitbook-plugin-livereload ....OK
info: >> 1 plugins loaded
info: loading book configuration....OK
info: load plugin gitbook-plugin-livereload ....OK
info: >> 1 plugins loaded

Template render error: expected variable end
    at Error.exports.TemplateError (/Users/pml/.gitbook/versions/2.0.2/node_modules/nunjucks/src/lib.js:51:19)
    at Object.extend.fail (/Users/pml/.gitbook/versions/2.0.2/node_modules/nunjucks/src/parser.js:64:15)
    at Object.extend.advanceAfterVariableEnd (/Users/pml/.gitbook/versions/2.0.2/node_modules/nunjucks/src/parser.js:133:18)
    at Object.extend.parseNodes (/Users/pml/.gitbook/versions/2.0.2/node_modules/nunjucks/src/parser.js:1159:22)
    at Object.extend.parseAsRoot (/Users/pml/.gitbook/versions/2.0.2/node_modules/nunjucks/src/parser.js:1177:42)
    at Object.module.exports.parse (/Users/pml/.gitbook/versions/2.0.2/node_modules/nunjucks/src/parser.js:1199:18)
    at Object.module.exports.compile (/Users/pml/.gitbook/versions/2.0.2/node_modules/nunjucks/src/compiler.js:1118:48)
    at Obj.extend._compile (/Users/pml/.gitbook/versions/2.0.2/node_modules/nunjucks/src/environment.js:444:35)
    at Obj.extend.compile (/Users/pml/.gitbook/versions/2.0.2/node_modules/nunjucks/src/environment.js:433:18)
    at null.<anonymous> (/Users/pml/.gitbook/versions/2.0.2/node_modules/nunjucks/src/environment.js:378:22)

So I get one warning about a missing gitbook version (but that seems ok), but then it fails in the middle of parsing something.

Any idea what the issue might be? The error message is spectacularly unhelpful to the uninitiated :)

[paulleader]

ping

Any suggestions? This is the first time I've used GitBook so I'm a bit stumped.

[rubydesign]

Moi,
i still use the old editor desktop application they released and that works fine for my book.
You could try that https://github.com/GitbookIO/editor-legacy

[5t111111]

I've encountered the same problem after updating gitbook-cli.

Gitbook fails to parse /README.md because it doesn't correctly interpret {{ and }} in that file in both ja and es, I don't know why though.

I've fixed the one in ja/README.md but there still might be a problem with es/README.md, so if you still have this problem and want gitbook to work locally, you can change {{ y }} to something like {{y}} or simply remove it for a workaround.