Shiba For Mac

Shiba is a beautifully designed Markdown preview utility that provides support for the GitHub flavored Markdown syntax and also integrates lint functionalities.

The app enables you to see the effects of your syntax modifications, but also highlights possible errors in the source document.

Shiba comes with a minimalist user interface, but also features a warm color palette that creates a clean and luminous working space. To get started, simply drag and drop the Markdown file you want to preview on top of the app’s main window.

Via the Shiba settings panel you get to direct the app to monitor a specific directory. Shiba will monitor the source file, and as soon as you save any modifications, it will automatically reflect them in its main window.

For your convenience, Shiba will display the full path to the file or folder in its status bar, and you can also reload the rendering manually with a simple press of a button.

Shiba also integrates mdast-lint and markdownlint, which means that it will also automatically assess the Markdown syntax and display the errors in a separate panel.

The drawback when it comes with working with the Shiba lint function is that it does not state the exact line that contains the error. If you are working with large Markdown documents, finding the exact location of all the errors might take some time.

To sum up, Shiba is a stylish OS X utility that integrates Markdown preview and lint capabilities, and automatically refreshes the document as soon as you save the modifications.

Note that Shiba does not include any editing capabilities. As a result, any Markdown editing and corrections must be made on the original file with the help of a third-party text editor.