Installing Themes

A themes is a plugin with templates. They are published with a -theme prefix.

You can search for themes in plugins directory.

The installation is the same as a plugin installation, through the file book.json:

{
    "plugins": ["theme-official"]
}

On the terminal:

$ gitbook install
$ gitbook serve

In the browser, your book will have a new visual.

Theme-official

Theme-material

Themes configuration

Some themes allows configuration, look at the theme's documentation for more information.

Example https://plugins.gitbook.com/plugin/theme-api

book.json

{
    "plugins": ["theme-api"],
    "pluginsConfig": {
        "theme-api": {
            "theme": "dark"
        }
    }
}

Disable plugins

Some themes, to work properly, require to disable some plugins. To disable a plugin just add a "-" before it's name.

Look at the theme documentation for more information.

Example https://plugins.gitbook.com/plugin/theme-material

book.json

{
    "plugins": [
        "theme-material",
        "-autotheme",
        "-fancybox",
        "-lunr",
        "-fontsettings",
        "-sharing",
        "-search"
    ]
}

Notice that even if you didn't installed any plugin explicitly, some default plugins are automatically loaded.