Yet Another Markdown to HTML converter

A dirt simple, null-safe Markdown to HTML converter.

Features

  • Functions for both Dart and Flutter*
  • Support for either string input or file input
  • Batch parse Markdown files*
  • Available for NPM**
  • Powers a WTFF***
  • Written in Dart (because I felt like it)

* Planned features; not complete or in the latest build yet.

** This would actually be really nice to make things compile way faster with several files. Planned, but not guaranteed.

*** This is just an idea of mine that I may or may not do. Stands for Way Too Fast Framework and would be used for websites.

Usage

You can either build YAMH or download a pre-built binary from GitHub.

Command-line usage

You can see the usage information provided by running ./yamh -h or ./yamh --help. All of these commands are flags/options for the ./yamh command and should be appended to it.

  • -f, --file <file>&mdash; Parse a Markdown file to HTML, where <file> is the path to a Markdown file.
  • -s, --string <string>&mdash; Parse a string containing Markdown to HTML, where <string> is the aforementioned string.
  • -o, --out <out-dir>&mdash; Specify a place for converted HTML files to go.
    • If you are using the -s option, it will default to saving in the console.
    • If you are using the -f option, it will default to saving in the same directory as the Markdown file.

in Dart and Flutter

Note: Support for Flutter has not been added yet. When it is, this will be updated to show the relevant documentation.

There are two core functions you can use:

  • yamh_str(<string>, [output])&mdash; Converts a string of Markdown to HTML. You can omit the [output] with null, and have it be returned for using in a promise (see the example in example/example.dart).
  • yamh_file(<file>, [output])&mdash; Converts a Markdown file to a HTML file. You can omit the [output] with null, and have the file be saved to the same directory as the Markdown file. Otherwise, you can specify where you want the file to be saved.

You can see a working example in both example/example.dart, as well as test/test.dart. You can read the full API reference here or generate it locally using dartdoc.

in Node/NPM

This has not been implemented yet. When it is, this will be updated to show the relevant documentation. It may also never happen, due to a lack of knowledge.

Building

  1. Install Dart
  2. Fetch dependencies (dart pub get)

Building for the command-line

To build binaries, use dart2native bin/yamh.dart -o build/yamh.ext; replacing « ext » with « exe » if on Windows or « app » if on macOS.

Building for JavaScript/Web

To build, use dart2js bin/yamh.dart -o build/yamh.js -m -O2. You can replace « build/yamh.js » for wherever you want the JavaScript file to be saved to.

Acknowledgements

This project is licensed under the MIT License. You can see a copy of it in the LICENSE file in the root of this repository.

Special thanks to:

  • the Dart and Flutter teams for having great documenation of the language,
  • emn178 for making a Markdown example that is used in test and examples; and:
  • all of the dependencies of YAMH for helping power this tool.

This was made to try and cross off the « Markdown to HTML converter » here. Although it does function for other things, you can have a single binary to interact with for all your needs.

Libraries

yamh