charmbracelet/glow
Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #494 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 17%).
1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 63 days ago, with 49 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #3 in the weekly ranking the week of Nov 2, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Render markdown files directly in the terminal with a stylish and user-friendly interface.
- Provides both a TUI and CLI with automatic style detection and support for local and remote markdown sources.
- Use for browsing and reading local markdown documentation within a Git repository or directory tree.
- Use for fetching and displaying markdown files from remote URLs or GitHub/GitLab repositories in the terminal.
- Use for customizing markdown rendering with configurable styles, word wrapping, and pager integration for CLI workflows.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz!
Glow is a terminal based markdown reader designed from the ground up to bring out the beauty—and power—of the CLI.
Use it to discover markdown files, read documentation directly on the command line. Glow will find local markdown files in subdirectories or a local Git repository.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
790+61
Open issues
250+35
Compared with peers in CLI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| morluto/rea | 373.3K | +249.0K | 60 | 5 days ago |
| mattpocock/skills | 295.1K | +11.9K | 75 | 13 days ago |
| ifixai-ai/iFixAi | 30.7K | +6.9K | 75 | 5 days ago |
| Alishahryar1/free-claude-code | 62.2K | +4.1K | 75 | 2 days ago |
| farion1231/cc-switch | 147.2K | +3.7K | 75 | today |
| charmbracelet/glow | 27.7K | +0 | 56 | 63 days ago |
| Category median | 147.2K | +6.9K | 75 | — |
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