View markdown files offline [closed]

Answer 1

There is also StackEdit. It will work both online and offline (it uses your browser local storage).

You can also connect it with Dropbox or Google Drive to see files hosted on the cloud.

Answer 2

If you're a vim person, you can try the vim-preview plugin. Simply install it into your ~/.vim directory with your method of choice. Then you can open a Markdown file with vim and use the command :Preview which will open a new window in your browser and display the end result.

Answer 3

RStudio can handle markdown files and convert them into html and pdf. If you already have it, you can use RStudio (it is an IDE for R programming language). It is free and open source, and works on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Answer 4

I just coded up an offline markdown viewer using the node.js file watcher and socket.io, so you point your browser at localhost and run ./markdownviewer /path/to/README.md and it streams it to the browser using websockets.

• markdownviewer https://github.com/Hainish/markdownviewer/

Answer 5

I frequently want portable applications. For this, I found

http://cloose.github.io/CuteMarkEd/ (I have just tried it briefly, and it seems to work fine).

http://markdownpad.com/faq.html#portable

Answer 6

I wrote Grip a while ago to do exactly this. It renders exactly like it does on GitHub and provides several additional options too:

• In addition to READMEs, Grip can renders GitHub comments and issues
• Click through local links to render other .md files
• An API to use in your own projects
• Export to an HTML file

Install with pip:

pip install grip

Then go to the directory that contains your README file and run:

grip

Pass -h for additional help and options.

Here's a screenshot of Grip rendering Grip's README:

Hope this helps. Check it out here.