Toolkit for transforming lightweight text markup and template based site and e-book generation.

Latest Release

The latest release is version 0.18.2.

The library is published to Maven Central for Scala 3, 2.13, 2.12 and supports cats-effect 3.x and Scala.js 1.x. The sbt plugin is published for sbt 1.x.

In case you still need support for older versions of Scala, sbt or cats-effect, please use:

• 0.17.1 for cats-effect 2.x
• 0.10.0 for Scala 2.11
• 0.7.0 for Scala 2.10 and sbt 0.13.x

Open Source under the Apache 2.0 License.

Features

• No External Tools

  Easy setup without any external tools or languages and only minimal library dependencies.

• Flexible Runtime

  Laika can be used as an sbt plugin, as a Scala library for the JVM or in the browser via Scala.js.

• Purely Functional

  Fully referentially transparent, no exceptions or runtime reflection and integration with cats-effect for polymorphic effect handling.

• Rich Feature Set

  Markdown and reStructuredText as input, HTML, EPUB and PDF as output, integrated preview server and syntax highlighting, link validation, auto-generated navigation, versioned documentation, and much more.

• Lightweight Theme

  The default Helium theme includes only a minimal amount of handcrafted CSS and JS, no Bootstrap, no frameworks.

• Highly Extensible

  Process the document AST, adjust rendering for individual AST nodes or extend text markup languages with custom directives.

Further Information

• Read the Manual.

• Try out Laika with the Demo App.

• Browse the API.

• Follow on Twitter for release announcements.

• Create Issues for bug reports or enhancement requests.

• Ask questions or share ideas in Discussions.