markdownserver

Markdown server using yhttp.

Features

• Serve a directory of markdown files and subdirectories as HTML using markdown2.
• Personalizable favicon, touch-icon logo and etc.
• Syntaxt highlighting for code blocks + themes using pygment.
• Copy-to-clipboard buttons for code-blocks and HTML bookmarks.
• Resizable sidebar and page layout powered by CSS Flexbox.
• Breadcrumbs (path) navigator.
• Change configuration using file and command line interface.
• mermaid support.

Install

pip install yhttp-markdown

Quickstart

Navigate to a directory consist of markdown files, then:

yhttp-markdown serve

Command line interface

yhttp-markdown --help

usage: yhttp-markdown [-h] [-c FILE] [-C DIRECTORY] [-O OPTION] [--version]
                      {serve,s,completion} ...

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c FILE, --configuration-file FILE
                        Configuration file
  -C DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY
                        Change to this path before starting, default is: `.`
  -O OPTION, --option OPTION
                        Set a configutation entry: -O foo.bar.baz='qux'. this
                        argument can passed multiple times.
  --version

Sub commands:
  {serve,s,completion}
    serve (s)
    completion          Bash auto completion using argcomplete python package.

Bash auto completion

To enable bash auto comletion, first run this command:

yhttp-markdown completion install

Then close and re-open your shell or deactivate/activate the current virtual environment (if using) to apply the change:

deactivate && . activate.sh

Test it:

yhttp-markdown TAB TAB

Nginx + Systemd + Gunicorn

Copy the deploy.sh to target server. then execute the script and answer the questions.

bob@laptop:~$ scp deploy.sh <server>
bob@laptop:~$ ssh root@<server>
root@server:~# ./deploy.sh

Configuration

yhttp-markdown can be configured using a YAML configuration file (the -c/--configuration-file) and -O/--option flags at the same time:

yhttp-markdown -c settings.yaml -O highlight.theme=vim -O toc.depth=2 serve

Configuration file

This is the example of default configuration file:

# settings.yaml


# app specific
default: index.md
root: .


# site title
title: HTTP Markdown Server


# table of contents
toc:
  depth: 3


# a list of regex patterns to exclude from TOC and HTTP serve
exclude:


# metadata path
metadata:
  physical: .ymdmetadata
  baseurl: /.ymdmetadata


# syntaxt highlighting theme
highlight:
  theme: monokai

Root directory

By default, yhttp-markdown serves files from the current directory (pwd). you may navigate to desired path before running the yhttp-markdown command or set the root configuration entry:

# settings.yaml

root: path/to/www/root

yhttp-markdown -O root=/path/to/www/root serve

You may also use the -C/--directory command line option to cd to a directory before running the server.

yhttp-markdown -C /path/to/www/root serve

Default document

yhttp-markdown looks for the index.md on requests referring to a directory (http://example.com/foo/). but, this can be changed using the default configuration entry:

# settings.yaml

default: default.md

Or, using the command line interface:

yhttp-markdown -O default=default.md serve

Table of contents

yhttp-markdown crawls the *.md files and finds the markdown headdings:

# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
#### Header 4
##### Header 5
###### Header 6

To genrate a tree of HTTP bookmarks and table of contents section of the current requested path.

You can change the toc.depth configuration value to change the behaviour:

yhttp-markdown -Otoc.depth=3 serve

Exclusion

To exclude file and directories from serving use the exclude configuration entry. it's a collection of regular expression patterns relative to the sites root (/):

# settings.yaml

exclude:
  - foo\\.md
  - bar/?.*

Or, using the command line interface:

yhttp-markdown -O"exclude=[lorem\.md, bar/?.*]" serve

Site metadata

The default website metadata such as favicon and logo could be overriden using the .ymdmetadata directory. this directory must be placed dirctly inside the root. so, these resources will be available at http://localhost:8080/.ymdmetadata/ when the server is running.

This is an examples of the metadata directory.

.ymdmetadata/
  android-chrome-192x192.png
  android-chrome-512x512.png
  apple-touch-icon.png
  favicon-16x16.png
  favicon-32x32.png
  favicon.ico
  logo.svg

The name and base path are also changable using the metadata.physical and metadata.baseurl configuration entries:

# settings.yaml

metadata:
  physical: .ymdmetadata
  baseurl: /.ymdmetadata

Code blocks syntax highlighting

yhttp-markdown uses the fenced-code-blocks and pygment to make the code blocks prettier.

The pygment theme can be changed using the highlight.theme configuration entry:

# settings.yaml

highlight:
  theme: monokai

Or, using the command line interface:

yhttp-markdown -O highlight.theme=vim serve

Available themes:

• autumn
• borland
• bw
• colorful
• default
• emacs
• friendly
• fruity
• manni
• monokai
• murphy
• native
• pastie
• perldoc
• tango
• trac
• vim
• vs

See pygments styles page to figure out how they looks like.

Contribuition

Setup development environment

Install python-makelib, then:

cd path/to/yhttp-markdown
make fresh env activate.sh

Test and coverage

make test
make cover

Lint

make lint

Serve

make serve

Or

source activate.sh
yhttp-markdown -C examples serve

NOTE: Do a make qa or make cover lint before commit.