@koumoul/doc

Preview and export professional A4 documents from Markdown.

@koumoul/doc turns a single Markdown file into a polished, print-ready document with a title page, table of contents, syntax-highlighted code blocks, Mermaid diagrams, and PDF export.

Requirements

Node.js >= 23.6.0

Installation

npm install @koumoul/doc

Usage

The CLI exposes two commands:

# Live preview with hot reload
koumoul-doc dev document.md

# Export to PDF
koumoul-doc export document.md

Options

Option	Default	Description
--port	5173	Dev server port (dev only)
--output	auto	Output PDF path (export only)

Markdown features

Frontmatter

YAML frontmatter controls the title page and document options:

---
title: My Document
version: "1.0"
date: "2025-01-15"
description: A brief summary shown on the title page.
warning: Displayed as a red warning box on the title page.
toc: true
theme: koumoul
---

All fields are optional. Omitting version displays a draft warning.

Page breaks

Use a horizontal rule to insert a page break:

---

Custom containers

Four styled container types are available:

:::info
Informational content.
:::

:::tip
Helpful advice.
:::

:::warning
Proceed with caution.
:::

:::danger
Critical warning.
:::

Code blocks

Syntax highlighting (via Shiki) supports JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, HTML, CSS, Bash, YAML, Python, SQL, and Markdown.

Mermaid diagrams

Fenced code blocks with the mermaid language tag are rendered as diagrams:

```mermaid
graph TD
    A[Input] --> B[Output]
```

Themes

Two built-in themes are available:

• koumoul (default) -- branded theme with custom colors and logo
• minimal -- neutral styling

Set the theme via the theme frontmatter field (defaults to koumoul). Themes control colors, fonts, and optional logo display on the title page via CSS variables.

Development

npm run dev          # Preview example.md
npm run lint         # Lint
npm run typecheck    # Type check
npm run test         # Unit tests
npm run test:e2e     # E2E tests (Playwright)