You Don't Know JS Ebooks

epub.css

body {
  text-align: justify;
}

code, pre {
  font-family: "DejaVuSansMono", monospace;
}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
  text-align: left;
}

pre {
  /* Don't make it too dark or it will be harder to read on e-ink devices */
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  border-radius: 3px;
  font-size: 0.85em;
  padding: 10px;
  text-align: left;
  /* Wrap the text of pre sections */
  white-space: pre-wrap;
}

@font-face {
  font-family: "DejaVuSansMono";
  src: url(DejaVuSansMono.ttf) format("truetype");
}

you-dont-know-js-ebooks.sh

sudo apt install fonts-dejavu-core git pandoc unzip zip

git clone https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS.git
wget -O You-Dont-Know-JS/epub.css https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bmaupin/6e3649af73120fac2b6907169632be2c/raw/epub.css

cd You-Dont-Know-JS
# Clean up redundant headings that end up getting split into separate chapters by themselves
find . -iname "*.md" -exec sed -i '/# You Don'\''t Know JS.*/d' {} \;
# Fix <br> tags which pandoc won't convert to <br />
find . -iname "*.md" -exec sed -i 's#<br>#<br />#' {} \;
# Close img tags
find . -iname "*.md" -exec sed -i -r 's#(<img.*[^/])>#\1 />#' {} \;

cd up\ \&\ going
# --no-highlight is used because syntax highlighting can make reading more difficult on e-ink devices
pandoc -S -o ../"You Don't Know JS: Up & Going.epub" \
  --epub-cover-image=cover.jpg \
  --epub-embed-font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf \
  --epub-stylesheet=../epub.css \
  --no-highlight \
  -M author="Kyle Simpson" \
  -M title="You Don't Know JS: Up & Going" \
  foreword.md \
  ../preface.md \
  ch1.md \
  ch2.md \
  ch3.md \
  apA.md
cd ..

cd scope\ \&\ closures
wget -O foreword.html https://shanehudson.net/2014/06/03/foreword-dont-know-js/
pandoc -S -o foreword.md foreword.html
pandoc -S -o ../"You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures.epub" \
  --epub-cover-image=cover.jpg \
  --epub-embed-font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf \
  --epub-stylesheet=../epub.css \
  --no-highlight \
  -M author="Kyle Simpson" \
  -M title="You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures" \
  foreword.md \
  ../preface.md \
  ch1.md \
  ch2.md \
  ch3.md \
  ch4.md \
  ch5.md \
  apA.md \
  apB.md \
  apC.md \
  apD.md
cd ..

cd this\ \&\ object\ prototypes
pandoc -S -o ../"You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes.epub" \
  --epub-cover-image=cover.jpg \
  --epub-embed-font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf \
  --epub-stylesheet=../epub.css \
  --no-highlight \
  -M author="Kyle Simpson" \
  -M title="You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes" \
  foreword.md \
  ../preface.md \
  ch1.md \
  ch2.md \
  ch3.md \
  ch4.md \
  ch5.md \
  ch6.md \
  apA.md \
  apB.md
cd ..

cd types\ \&\ grammar
pandoc -S -o ../"You Don't Know JS: Types & Grammar.epub" \
  --epub-cover-image=cover.jpg \
  --epub-embed-font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf \
  --epub-stylesheet=../epub.css \
  --no-highlight \
  -M author="Kyle Simpson" \
  -M title="You Don't Know JS: Types & Grammar" \
  foreword.md \
  ../preface.md \
  ch1.md \
  ch2.md \
  ch3.md \
  ch4.md \
  ch5.md \
  apA.md \
  apB.md
cd ..

cd async\ \&\ performance
pandoc -S -o ../"You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance.epub" \
  --epub-cover-image=cover.jpg \
  --epub-embed-font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf \
  --epub-stylesheet=../epub.css \
  --no-highlight \
  -M author="Kyle Simpson" \
  -M title="You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance" \
  foreword.md \
  ../preface.md \
  ch1.md \
  ch2.md \
  ch3.md \
  ch4.md \
  ch5.md \
  ch6.md \
  apA.md \
  apB.md \
  apC.md
cd ..

cd es6\ \&\ beyond
pandoc -S -o ../"You Don't Know JS: ES6 & Beyond.epub" \
  --epub-cover-image=cover.jpg \
  --epub-embed-font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf \
  --epub-stylesheet=../epub.css \
  --no-highlight \
  -M author="Kyle Simpson" \
  -M title="You Don't Know JS: ES6 & Beyond" \
  foreword.md \
  ../preface.md \
  ch1.md \
  ch2.md \
  ch3.md \
  ch4.md \
  ch5.md \
  ch6.md \
  ch7.md \
  ch8.md \
  apA.md
cd ..

# Workaround for https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/3792
for epubfile in *.epub; do
    mkdir tmp-epub
    cd tmp-epub
    unzip ../"$epubfile"
    sed -i 's/ & / \&amp; /' title_page.xhtml
    zip -X ../"$epubfile" mimetype
    zip -rX ../"$epubfile" * -x mimetype
    cd ..
    rm -rf tmp-epub
done

Just tried running this on a machine with Linux freshly installed. Had to apt install zip and unzip, too.

Forked and added those to the top line. Thanks for writing this script!

@bennett39 Updated, thanks!

@bmaupin thanks for this.

My version of pandoc (2.7.2) indicates that --epub-stylesheet is to be replaced with --css. Similarly, the -S flag is deprecated ; instead, the formulation pandoc -f markdown+smart -o ../"You Don't Know JS: Up & Going.epub" may be used.

On Arch Linux, you will need to install the package ttf-dejavu (not fonts-dejavu-core) and modify the font path, to /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSansMono.ttf.

@bmaupin Thanks for sharing this!

I made a docker image for this. So people don't have to install dependencies on their machine:
https://github.com/gongzhang/you-dont-know-js-epub