Hi @yihui and @cderv,

In prep for next package release with bs4_book output format, we discussed creating a project template with:

1. A project accessible from RStudio project wizard to create "A Bootstrap-4 HTML book using bookdown"
2. A checkbox for users using GitHub Pages to automatically add the .nojekyll file and change the output directory to docs/ (same as Distill's website, see: Add a checkbox for deploying to ghpages in New Bookdown Project window (inspired by distill) #1092; Images not rendering on gh-pages; might be missing some config step #1087)
3. I'm happy to write some filler text into the book skeleton for this so that the example book gives some minimal instructions for users.
4. An exported function like create_bs4_book() to do the same as above from the command line (see: Feature request: bookdown.skeleton function #225); also like Distill's create_website() function: https://pkgs.rstudio.com/distill/reference/create_website.html)