- Category
- Developer Tools
- Rank
- No. 1794Tools index
Previous survey · No. 1801 ·
- Pricing
- Open Source
- Type
- TOOL
- Builder
- wevm
- GitHub
- 2 stars
- Date
About
Render any GitHub markdown file or gist as a scientific-paper-style article. From the team behind wagmi and viem.
What it does
Stig gives GitHub technical documents a focused reading view. Paste a supported URL or swap its host, and it fetches the source, formats the content, builds navigation, and preserves links back to GitHub.
Why it's ranked here
The narrow idea is executed with useful depth. Stig handles repositories, individual documents, and gists while adding math, diagrams, code highlighting, callouts, footnotes, responsive navigation, and share cards. That makes it more than a typography skin.
What's good
The reading experience respects technical material. Unsupported code languages fall back to plain text, diagrams and substantial images open in a pan-and-zoom viewer, headings gain stable anchors, and long documents receive numbered navigation that follows the reader’s position.
Tradeoffs
It renders only Markdown-family files; other repository content returns readers to GitHub. Private repositories require a separate proxy arrangement. Anonymous GitHub access is rate-limited, the presentation uses a fixed light theme, and changing a commit-cached render requires a new commit.
How to use it well
Use Stig for sharing RFCs, design notes, specifications, and documentation that already live on GitHub. Repository owners can add titles, descriptions, and sidebar navigation. It complements an existing writing workflow, but it does not edit documents, write to GitHub, or replace source hosting.
Technical notes+
The private ESM package in package.json uses TypeScript, React, TanStack Start, Vite, pnpm, and Wrangler. src/lib/Source.ts parses GitHub, raw-content, and gist URL shapes, then normalizes them into internal source variants. src/lib/Markdown.ts builds a remark-to-rehype pipeline with GFM, math, KaTeX, Shiki, raw HTML, alert conversion, link rewriting, and heading IDs. src/routes/$.tsx performs server loading, metadata construction, non-Markdown redirects, sidebar rendering, and scroll-aware contents. src/lib/Mermaid.tsx imports Mermaid only after matching diagram blocks are found. src/worker.tsx serves the application, generates Open Graph PNGs with embedded CMU Serif fonts, stores those images in Cloudflare KV, and adds cache headers.
Observed
- Primary language
- TypeScript and TSX
- Packaging
- Private ESM package managed with pnpm
- Interface
- Web application driven by GitHub, raw-content, and gist URL paths
- Deployment platform
- Cloudflare Worker with Wrangler and Cloudflare KV
- Application stack
- React with TanStack Start, TanStack Router, and Vite
- Renderable formats
- Markdown, MDX, and .markdown files
Read from README.md, package.json, src/start.ts, src/router.tsx, src/worker.tsx, src/routeTree.gen.ts, src/lib/Og.tsx, src/lib/Zoom.ts, src/routes/$.tsx, src/lib/Config.ts, src/lib/Source.ts, src/lib/Markdown.ts, src/lib/Mermaid.tsx, src/routes/index.tsx, src/lib/ImageZoom.tsx.
What it can do
Render GitHub markdown file as scientific paper
GitHub markdown file URL or path → Scientific paper-style formatted article
Render GitHub gist as scientific paper
GitHub gist URL or ID → Scientific paper-style formatted article
Convert markdown content to academic format
Raw markdown text → Academic paper-style document
Transform repository documentation into research paper layout
GitHub repository markdown files → Research paper formatted documentation
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