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What is md2pdfgo?

hrushik98/md2pdfgo — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-05-18

★ 13JavaScriptAudience · generalComplexity · 2/5Setup · easy

In one sentence

A web app that converts Markdown into a clean, print-ready PDF, showing you a live preview as you type before you download.

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    What it does
      Converts Markdown to PDF
      Live preview while typing
      Downloads print ready file
    Tech stack
      Go
      JavaScript
      wkhtmltopdf
      Docker
    Use cases
      Turn notes into a PDF
      Share formatted documents
      Run locally with Docker
    Audience
      Writers
      Developers

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Write Markdown notes and export them as a polished PDF document.

USE CASE 2

Preview formatted text live before generating the final PDF.

USE CASE 3

Run the whole converter locally with a single Docker command.

What is it built with?

GoJavaScriptwkhtmltopdfDocker

How does it compare?

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Setup difficultyeasymoderateeasy
Complexity2/54/51/5
Audiencegeneralresearcherdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Docker Compose starts both frontend and backend together with no manual dependency installs.

So what is it?

This project is a tool that converts Markdown files into PDF documents. Markdown is a lightweight way of writing formatted text using plain characters, and this tool takes that text, shows you a live preview as you type, and lets you download the result as a clean, print-ready PDF that matches the preview. It is built as a full-stack web application, meaning it has both a frontend you interact with in your browser and a backend that handles the actual conversion. The backend is written in Go and uses a library called wkhtmltopdf to generate the PDFs. The frontend is written in JavaScript and runs on port 5173 locally. The README is brief and the project appears to be a straightforward single-purpose utility. You can run the whole thing with Docker, which means you do not need to install Go, Node, or wkhtmltopdf yourself, the Docker setup handles all of that automatically. One command starts both the frontend and backend together.

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Prompt 1
Help me run md2pdfgo locally using Docker to convert a Markdown file to PDF.
Prompt 2
Explain how the frontend and backend of md2pdfgo work together to produce a PDF.
Prompt 3
Walk me through starting md2pdfgo without Docker by installing Go, Node, and wkhtmltopdf myself.

Frequently asked questions

What is md2pdfgo?

A web app that converts Markdown into a clean, print-ready PDF, showing you a live preview as you type before you download.

What language is md2pdfgo written in?

Mainly JavaScript. The stack also includes Go, JavaScript, wkhtmltopdf.

How hard is md2pdfgo to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is md2pdfgo for?

Mainly general.

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