(I really don't mean to "take the piss" as the British say... but I have worked before with a CMS architected to be a static site publishing tool called OpenText Web Site Management, formerly Red Dot I think, it's like 20 years old or something. It just gets me when being "ahead of the curve" has caught up to something some Germans made that long ago.)

This article is just an ad for a static site generator product called Eleventy.

Just use Parcel with .md files