Markdown Instant Preview - MiP

There is an improved version written in Rust

Markdown Instant Preview aka mip is a fast and simple markdown viewer. Mip uses a webview window to render the markdown. I wrote mip to this preview my markdown files which I write in vim.

mip-video.webm

Installation

• no releases yet. You should compile it yourself.

Features

• built-in webserver
• preview images
• show/hide frontmatter
• autoreload if file changes

Todo

• refactor code
• release workflow

Usage

  mip. A simple markdown viewer.

  Usage:

    mip [options] [FILE]

  Options:

    --help                           Show this help.
    --version                        Show version.

  Arguments:

    01. file      Path to markfown file. [type:String] [required]

  Shortcuts:

    CTRL-r        Reload document

Development

Prerequisites

• crystal 1.x
• yarn
• make
• webkitgtk
• fswatch

Setup Dev Environment

shards install
yarn

Compile and run program

make

Build optimized program

make build
./mip

Compile themes

make build
./mip

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/mipmip/mip/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Pim Snel - creator and maintainer