localhost return 404

[katopz]

Step

cargo install mdbook
cargo install mdbook-theme
mdbook serve

localhost will appear 404, and when try to change something it will keep rebuild again and again infinitely.

My workaround is remove or comment out these lines in book.toml.

[output.theme-ace]
theme-white = "xcode"
theme-dark = "monokai"

then run mdbook serve again and things working fine.
Not sure what I miss.

Thanks

[zjp-CN]

Thanks for reporting. I have never used mdbook serve.

Another suggestion for mdbook-theme¹ is:
Once you're satisfied with the theme settings like layout or font-size, comment the whole [preprocessor.theme] table and keep the theme/ dir. Otherwise files under theme/ will be always appended evey time mdbook builds.

Footnotes

1. [preprocessor.theme] is used to generate theme/ dir before mdbook builds, and [output.theme-ace] is used to replace css in book/ dir after mdbook builds. ↩