Some of the users of the template were so kind as to provide instructions to recreate a particular set up that they have been using to compile their books. In particular, Karl-Heinz Becker, author of "Dynamical Systems and Fractals," among other books and articles, wrote detailed instructions to configure a private ShareLaTeX server; and @pwgallagher opened an issue to tell us how to integrate the kaobook template with one's local TeX installation. There are also instructions for what I regards as a 'normal' LaTeX workflow, intended for beginners. Further instructions are welcome by anyone and will be added here.
These instructions are useful if you don't want to use Overleaf, e.g. because of privacy concerns. Setting up your own ShareLaTeX server is a nice way to use the template from your browser. Moreover, you get autocompletion of the commands and automatic spell checking.
IMPORTANT: if you use a ShareLaTeX server, your main.tex file must
be at the root of the project, otherwise weird things will happen!
If you are used to TeXLive, then these instructions are for you. They
tell you how to make sure that your local LaTeX installation will find
the template's files, so that you do not need to have the kaobook.cls
and styles files in the directory of your project.