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throwGuardian
Most static site generators are just this a .md to html convertor, with refined error checking, some templating and routing support.
tutfbhuf
I think it has educational value to see how blogging using markdown can be done in a few lines of shell script with pandoc. However, a static site generator is better suited for most users, in terms of feature completeness.
y42
I like that idea. I wonder if there is a web server or even a module for the popular ones (nginx, apache) that renders markdown files and server HTML on the fly.
chatmasta
You could get something like this with lua and openresty.

Looks like there are already some lua modules for markdown to HTML [0] and static site generation [1]. It could definitely be done.

But what would be the advantage of rendering markdown to HTML on the fly? It's unlikely to change once it's been deployed.

[0] https://github.com/bakpakin/luamd

[1] https://luapress.org/

y42
Thank you! (Just seems more efficient to render md files directly instead of converting them into html, which then will be served by the web server.)
tokyokawasemi
This is super cool. I was always a fan of Expose (https://github.com/Jack000/Expose) because of accessibility to beginners like me, and few dependencies. Pandoc is similar, but powerful, and I like that this leans on that. With a custom template this could be really neat.