hubview 0.3

GitHub-like local file viewer built with Flask

HubView — GitHub‑like file viewer (Flask)

A clean, fast, local file viewer with a GitHub‑style UI. Browse folders, preview code with syntax highlighting, render Markdown (tables, task lists, admonitions), show images/video/audio/PDF, and even draw Mermaid diagrams via fenced blocks.

https://github.com/ (UI inspiration only)

Example Run Code

from hubview import app
app.create_hub(
    root='./',
    host='0.0.0.0',
    port=3000,
    script_ex='.venv/bin/python',
    script_path='./',
    script_log='log.log'
)

• Many to come

Quick start

1. pip install hubview
2. hubview --root 'your directory'
3. open http://127.0.0.1:5000 in your browser.

Features

• 🗂️ Directory browsing with breadcrumbs
• 📝 Markdown rendering with pymdown-extensions (tables, details, tasklists, emoji, etc.)
• 🧠 Mermaid diagrams via fenced blocks:
  mermaid</code> … <code>
• 🎨 Client-side syntax highlighting using highlight.js
• 🖼️ Photo/image preview, plus audio/video and PDF embeds
• 📖 Auto-render README.md (or index.md) at the bottom of each directory
• 🛡️ Path safety (jailed to a root folder)
• 🌗 Looks good in light and dark