Adding Front Matter To mdserver

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The very first issue I opened on mdserver - my server project that serves HTML from markdown files - was that the title of the page (which shows in the browser tab, and is used for browser bookmarks) needed to be set inside the markdown file, rather than generated from the file name. I didn’t invent this idea - I’ve seen this sort of metadata in the top of Jekyll and Hugo markdown. Here’s an example from the Jekyll website :

Markdown on dev.endevour

Adding Front Matter To mdserver