Renderme

Renderme is simple module with one clear goal: Render README files. It tries to render the files locally using the marked module in the same way as Github would have rendered the files. Some details:

• Sanitizes the outputted HTML using Google's caja parser.
• Highlights code snippets using pygments
• Falls back to the Github API for rendering when repository information has been provided and we're unable to detect the content as Markdown.

But there are some small but intentional differences when we are rendering the README files locally. We add line number information to all the code snippets so it's more readable and people can actually jump to snippets which are on the README files. These code snippets are prefixed with a different CSS class then the snippets that Github uses, we use renderme as a prefix for the code so you choose how you want to style them your self.

Installation

This module is released in the npm registry.

npm install --save renderme

Usage

This module exposes a single function as primary interface. So you can simply require the renderme module and that would be all you need.

'use strict';
 
var renderme = require('renderme');

The renderme variable now contains a function. This function accepts the following arguments.

• data An object contains:
  • readme: The actual contents of a README file
  • readmeFilename: An optional filename of the README which is used for markdown detection.
• options An optional object which allows you to configure:
  • github A pre-parsed object which contains a user and repo property with the relevant Github repository information
  • githulk A pre-configured githulk instance which will be used all fallback when the given README file isn't a valid markdown file.
  • trimmed The amount of chars we should assume that the supplied README data is trimmed and we need to fallback to GitHub for rendering instead.
• fn The completion callback, which follows the error first callback pattern.

As you might have noticed the data structure follows the same internal structure as the packages in The npm Registry. Which makes it really easy to render README files of modules which is also it's primary use case.

Given all this knowledge, rendering a README would be as simple as:

renderme({
  readme: require('fs').readFileSync(__dirname +'/README.md', 'utf-8'),
  readmeFilename: 'README.md'
}, function rendered(err, html) {
  console.log(err, html);
});

Debugging

This module make use of the debug module for logging debug information. To display this information in your terminal you need to set the DEBUG env varible to renderme*:

DEBUG=renderme* node <entryfile.js>

License

MIT