The problem
Developers and teams needed a way to share codebases offline or generate documentation from repositories
Repo2PDF
Turn any GitHub repository into a syntax-highlighted PDF, from the command line (npx repo2pdf) or in the browser.
- Automation
- Live
- TypeScript, Node.js, pdfkit
The build
We built a CLI on pdfkit and highlight.js that walks a repo and typesets every file, and a web app that does the same in the browser.
The outcome
382 GitHub stars, 77 forks and thousands of npm downloads.
5 features. 7 tools.
- Clone a GitHub URL or read a local repo
- Line numbers, page numbers and syntax highlighting
- Strip comments and blank lines
- One PDF, or one per file
- Ignore rules and automatic binary-file skipping
