how to serve my own gitbook using github pages

Question

I've created my own gitbook. looks good locally.

but how shall I integrate it into my github pages? Similar issues here difficulty-in-getting-gitbook-site-to-show-up-in-github-page

I tried that approach as well, but I have problem setting the grunt up, and I also I would like to do that myself before using an integrated tool.

I tried to copy the generated _book folder to my github page folder, but that didn't workout as there are some encoding issues

Answer 1

Similar question here

I had this question because I don't understand github pages, the underlying steps involve

1. build the _book folder, this is the static content that will be served

2. create gh-pages branch copy the _book folder content into gh-pages

3. github will then serve the content

   the command gitbook publish will finish all 3 steps. but I am not familiar with grunt as well , as npm install . is a pre-step.