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jakearmitage
Why? At this point, why not just use raw HTML and CSS?
jjjbokma
Markdown is way easier than HTML and CSS. I've been hand coding some stuff, but am happy that I can maintain my own tumblelog [0] using a single Markdown file which is processed by a static site generator I wrote [1]. Even though the blog is mostly a link blog using Markdown saves me a lot of time and headaches.

[0] https://plurrrr.com/

[1] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

jakearmitage
Oh, absolutely. But most markdown editors compile to HTML in real time. Or CLI tools.
fungifam
“Simple blog”... install node.js and Angular to get started. LoL.
slezyr
You should have kept looking further for the Firebase part.
darkhorse13
This is what web development is in 2020.
tuananh
at this point, i just want a tool that watch a folder of markdown files and generate accordingly. that's it.
bebna
bash script with inotify or watchman to watch the folder, pandoc for conversion, done.