endb-book

The Endatabas Book

Setup

Clone the main endb repo in a sibling directory with endb-book:

cd .. && git clone git@github.com:endatabas/endb.git && cd endb-book

Make sure you have cargo, npm, and pip (Rust, Node, and Python) installed. Then run:

cargo install mdbook
cargo install mdbook-linkcheck

npm install -g jsdoc
npm install -g jsdoc-to-markdown

pip install sphinx
pip install sphinx-markdown-builder                                                                                                                                                    │
pip install sphinx-autodoc-typehints

Build

make
make serve  # to view locally

Limitations

• There is no mdbook-pdf but the HTML print feature works reasonably well.

Inspiration

• https://archive.org/details/TheCProgrammingLanguageFirstEdition/mode/2up
• https://lalrpop.github.io/lalrpop/
• https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/

TODO

• beef up tutorial
• remove code example overflows

TODO: Feedback Required / Later

• NorthWind equivalent?
• docker/podman --pull=always (doesn't work in podman 3.4.4, which is in the 22.04 repo)