Last Updated on February 27, 2026
NimblePublisher is a minimal filesystem-based publishing engine with Markdown support and code highlighting.
Available options:
- :build – the name of the module that will build each entry
- :from – a wildcard pattern where to find all entries. Files with the .md or .markdown extension will be converted to Markdown with Earmark. Other files will be kept as is.
- :as – the name of the module attribute to store all built entries
- :highlighters – which code highlighters to use. NimblePublisher uses Makeup for syntax highlighting and you will need to add its .css classes. You can generate the CSS classes by calling Makeup.stylesheet(:vim_style, “makeup”) inside iex -S mix. You can replace :vim_style by any style of your choice.
- :earmark_options – an %Earmark.Options{} struct
- :parser – custom module with a parse/2 function that receives the file path and content as params.
- :html_converter – custom module with a convert/4 function that receives the extension, body, and attributes of the markdown file, as well as all options as params.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/dashbitco/nimble_publisher
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Developer: Dashbit
License: Apache License v2.0
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