WKMarkdownView

A lightweight Swift component for rendering Markdown and KaTeX math inside a WKWebView, all using local resources.

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Features

• ✅ Render Markdown via marked.js
• ✅ Support for inline and block LaTeX using KaTeX
• ✅ Light/Dark mode via prefers-color-scheme
• ✅ Modern async Swift API using async/await
• ✅ Dynamically get content height for flexible layouts
• ✅ Fully offline: all resources are bundled locally
• ✅ SwiftUI support with automatic height adjustment

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Requirements

• iOS 13.0+
• macOS 11.0+
• Swift 5.5+
• Xcode 13.0+

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Installation

Swift Package Manager

To install WKMarkdownView using the Swift Package Manager, add it to the dependencies in your Package.swift file:

dependencies: [
    .package(url: "https://github.com/Elvich/WKMarkdownView.git", from: "1.0.0")
]

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Quick Start

WKMarkdownView offers a native SwiftUI view that automatically handles rendering and resizing. This is the easiest way to get started.

import WKMarkdownView
import SwiftUI

struct ContentView: View {
    let markdown = """
    # Welcome to SwiftUI

    This is **Markdown** rendered in SwiftUI.

    You can also write math: $E = mc^2$.

    $$
    \\int_a^b f(x) \\, dx
    $$
    """

    var body: some View {
        ScrollView {
            MarkdownView(markdown)
                .padding()
        }
    }
}

Advanced Usage

UIKit Integration

You can also use WKMarkdownView directly in a UIKit project.

import WKMarkdownView

// 1. Create a markdown view instance
// LaTeX support is enabled by default
let markdownView = WKMarkdownView() 
view.addSubview(markdownView)

// 2. Set its frame
markdownView.frame = view.bounds
markdownView.autoresizingMask = [.width, .height]

// 3. Load the markdown content
Task {
    try? await markdownView.updateMarkdown("""
    # Hello from UIKit
    
    This is **Markdown** with math support:
    
    Inline math: $E = mc^2$
    
    Block math:
    $$
    \\frac{a}{b} = c
    $$
    """)
}

Getting Content Height

For manual layout calculations, you can asynchronously retrieve the rendered content's height.

Task {
    if let height = try? await markdownView.contentHeight() {
        // Use the height for your layout...
        print("Content height: \\(height)")
    }
}

Disabling LaTeX Support

If you don't need math rendering, you can disable it during initialization to save resources.

// Create a markdown view without LaTeX/math support
let markdownView = WKMarkdownView(enableLatex: false)

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Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to check the issues page.

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License

WKMarkdownView is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.