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 :

Displaying markdown as HTML

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In the spirit of over-complicating things, when I wanted to collect all the links to the services on my homelab into one place, I decided I needed to write them in markdown, and have them converted on the fly into HTML by a server. Then when I couldn’t find exactly what I was after (Harp was closest) of course, I decided to write it.

Markdown

Markdown has definitely been having it’s moment over the last couple of years. It’s a simple open format mark-up language that is quite readable in it’s source form. Although it’s now very fashionable as an input for static site generators, most people will have run in to it when adding simple formatting to forum comments or on instant messaging platforms.

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Adding Front Matter To mdserver

Displaying markdown as HTML

Markdown