Chromarkdown

Build single-file static HTML page with Chroma (syntax highlighting) and Markdown

Introduction

Chromarkdown is a tool to generate single-file static HTML pages from a Markdown file input. This tool has no external dependecies and performs the following operations:

• Syntax highlighting thanks to chroma
• Markdown rendering using blackfriday
• Embedded Roboto and Roboto-mono fonts
• Dynamic CSS for Syntax Highlighter according to the chosen theme
• Single-file (one HTML file) output with embedded styles and fonts (no network call)
• Responsive page with simple design according to bettermotherfuckingwebsite

Build

Chromarkdown is using dep for its dependency management

$ go get github.com/Depado/chromarkdown
$ cd $GOPATH/Depado/chromarkdown
$ dep ensure
$ packr build

For a standalone installation, chromarkdown is using packr to embed the template in the go binary.

$ go get -u github.com/gobuffalo/packr/...
$ packr build
$ # or, to embed and install: 
$ packr install

Install

Pre-compiled binaries can be found in the releases tab.

$ wget https://github.com/Depado/chromarkdown/releases/download/v1.0.0/chromarkdown_linux_amd64

Usage

Once installed you can run the chromarkdown command:

$ chromarkdown --help

Chromarkdown uses a combination of blackfriday and chroma to render an input markdown file.
It generates standalone HTML files that includes fonts, a grid system and extra CSS.

Usage:
  chromarkdown [input file] [flags]

Flags:
  -h, --help            help for chromarkdown
      --no-toc          Disable the table of content
  -o, --output string   specify the path of the output HTML (default "out.html")
      --theme string    Specify the theme for syntax highlighting (default "monokai")
  -t, --title string    Specify the title of the HTML page (default "Ouput")

License