Single-Page Application (SPA) Mode

[heyakyra]

It would be nice to be able to render the entire book into a SPA that doesn't load a new html file for each page and instead uses JavaScript to switch pages.

[WofWca]

Related (dup?) #546

[heyakyra]

Hm, I suppose #546 is one possible way to achieve this. Another would be a virtual DOM similar to what Elm or React would provide.

[doregex]

Hi, I have implemented a new flag that does something similar in this fork doregex/mdBook. It can be added to the book.toml like:

[output.html]
single-page = true

By enabling it the pages are rendered inside the index.html, the search has also been modified to output results that are clickable using hashes.
The feature is just an add-on that doesn't affect the behaviour. I would like to open a PR to merge this function.

[segeljakt]

Any chance this could be turned into a custom renderer backend?