How to use pandoc in the front-end

How to use pandoc in the front-end

[Stephen Phillips]

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Sorry to ask a (probably) very basic question for which there is (probably) 
a very simple answer.

How can I use pandoc directly in a front-end (Angular 2+) web-app? Or is 
that not possible / advisable?

Using the Pandoc API <https://pandoc.org/using-the-pandoc-api.html> says "Creating 
a GUI front-end for pandoc is thus just a matter of populating the Opts structure 
and calling this function." - which makes it all sound so very easy!
But how do I call the API from my front-end code?
 
Is it a matter of using one of the wrappers / interfaces listed here 
<https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki/Pandoc-wrappers-and-interfaces>? If so, 
how do I require a node module in my front-end? (Acknowledging that's not 
got much to do with pandoc!)

Any tips / guidance / docs / articles / tutorials very welcome.

Thanks

Steve

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Re: How to use pandoc in the front-end

[John MacFarlane]

Stephen Phillips <stevie-s+laoUQTh3ivSplVBqRQBQ@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Using the Pandoc API <https://pandoc.org/using-the-pandoc-api.html> says "Creating 
> a GUI front-end for pandoc is thus just a matter of populating the Opts structure 
> and calling this function." - which makes it all sound so very easy!
> But how do I call the API from my front-end code?

This document is about using pandoc as a library from a Haskell
program.  Unless you're using Haskell to write your front-end,
it won't be easy. (You'd have to shell out to pandoc -- there
may be node modules out there that encapsulate this -- or set
up a local server you can query.)