Building an html site by building each individual page

[ericfeunekes]

I'm wondering if it's possible to build a whole book by running the build command on each page individually. I know that wouldn't typically be optimal, but I'm working on building a jupyter-book plugin for a build tool called pants that takes care of identifying changed files and running commands on each file in parallel.

I've found that when I run build on a single page, I'm not getting the theme or table of contents side bar for a page. So I'm wondering whether it's theoretically possible to build a site by building each page individually, and if so, how to do it.