Programmatic API

[simonhaenisch]

To make the package easier to use as a dependency of other packages, a programmatic API would probably be helpful for some people. Should be a pretty straight-forward refactoring task.

[ceddybi]

@simonhaenisch Can we use this in a node app?

[simonhaenisch]

@ceddybi I just worked on this and got something ready, however it'll be a very simplistic API for now (basically it'll expose a function mdToPdf() that accepts a path to a markdown file and a config object).

Here's an example of how to use it:

const mdToPdf = require('md-to-pdf');
 
(async () => {
    const pdf = await mdToPdf('readme.md', { dest: 'readme.pdf' }).catch(console.error);
 
    if (pdf) {
        console.log(pdf.filename);
    }
})();

I'm planning on changing the API to accept a list of files and to allow for concurrent conversions, however that'll require a couple more changes and one breaking change.

I'll make this available in the next release. Just need to update the readme.

[simonhaenisch]

@ceddybi this is now released in v2.5.0 (: