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Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

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Post by enriquto »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #31
enriquto wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it is just as easy to read and write as markdown, and it does not require javascript libraries to be rendered

Is there a WYSIWYG simple editor for creating documents in HTML5? Something that's basically wordpad and produces pages that actually look the same on different browsers? Documentation for my projects is currently in raw ASCII because I couldn't find a satisfactory solution.

If you edit html inside a modern editor it colorizes the output in a useful way. You see the headings, and the basic formatting in a rather clear way. For simple html (as the one you would expect from markdown conversion) this is more than enough.

Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

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Post by crempp »

Crontab wrote: post #43

Interesting. Out of curiosity, does anyone know if is there a webserver that natively converts Markdown to HTML?

I wrote a web server that converts markdown to HTML dynamically. Not sure if it's what you're looking for but it works decently well. I host my personal site on it.

https://github.com/crempp/mdweb

Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

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Post by kyledrake »

gprasanth wrote: post #27

There has been Strapdownjs[1] around for quite a while now. It's simple, supports some theming as well. Anyway, good luck with this. Always fun to build something from scratch. [1] - http://strapdownjs.com/

This is more evidence to me that needs to not go away, I know browsers are considering it and I really hope they don't go that route.

I use for html code commenting - see the source code at https://elementcss.neocities.org/

The one thing these markdown examples are missing is a way to do grids! I bet there's a clever way to make columns and rows work.

Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

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Post by marcuskaz »

Crontab wrote: post #43

Interesting. Out of curiosity, does anyone know if is there a webserver that natively converts Markdown to HTML?

I wrote one in Go called Lanyon, available at: https://github.com/mkaz/lanyon

It works pretty well, but fairly bare bones and haven't updated it in a bit.

Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

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Post by Aelius »

rubyn00bie wrote: post #49

This is kind of neat but why not just use pandoc? pandoc -s input.md -t html -o output.html https://pandoc.org/

Why would you want to constantly recompile documents every time you make an edit to them? Why would you want to juggle two files for every document you produce?

Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

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Post by kryptk »

Aelius wrote: post #57
rubyn00bie wrote: post #49

This is kind of neat but why not just use pandoc? pandoc -s input.md -t html -o output.html https://pandoc.org/

Why would you want to constantly recompile documents every time you make an edit to them? Why would you want to juggle two files for every document you produce?

For what it's worth, this is the problem GitLab Pages solves. A simple "git push" to a properly to figured repo will rebuild and redeploy your static site, the actual html output doesnt go into the repo.

Re: Show HN: Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown

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Post by ms013 »

rubyn00bie wrote: post #49

This is kind of neat but why not just use pandoc? pandoc -s input.md -t html -o output.html https://pandoc.org/

Exactly my thoughts. That’s where I landed for my site, and it’s really simple. Edit file, pandoc, scp to server, done.
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