mdxish

Write high-quality, interactive blog posts in markdown, live.

See this readme rendered with mdxish instead

In a nutshell

• write in markdown optionally including html / codeblocks
• start a codeblock with // @run as the first line to render directly instead of as pre.
  • javascript / glsl become <script>, html renders, etc.
  • Attributes can be specified for scripts like // @run id="foo" type="bar".
• optionally specify title and head block (e.g. custom styles or scripts outside of core post)
• All headers are automatically given an id of their contents lowercase and hyphenated for easy linking - which can be done in markdown like [some text](#in-a-nutshell).

Checkout an example

Blog Post (directly from a gist):

https://mdxish.com/jasonjmcghee/cba64163600fa90a3ea5d2ea099f3b55

(or you can drop the username https://mdxish.com/cba64163600fa90a3ea5d2ea099f3b55)

Source (click "Raw" to see the raw markdown):

https://gist.github.com/jasonjmcghee/cba64163600fa90a3ea5d2ea099f3b55

This is purely for demonstrative purposes - check the examples folder for more recent examples of posts build with mdxish.

Installation

npm install -g mdxish

Or you can clone the repo and use npm run.

Getting started

There are two main ways mdxish can be used.

1. Convert mdxish flavored markdown into static html locally (live or one-off) or in CI/CD.
2. Put a mdxish flavored markdown file called index.md in a gist, copy the gist id, and go to https://mdxish.com/{gistId}

For example:

mdxish convert examples/falling-sand.md

To launch a live server that will automatically keep HTML up to date with whatever you write in your mdxish flavored markdown:

mdxish live examples/falling-sand.md

Note: this approach completely reloads all html / scripts on any change. You can customize this behavior to do whatever you want with the newly rendered HTML. Here's how to specify custom hot reload behavior.

Examples

Check the examples directory. The current best demonstration of capabilities is naive-gi.md. I strongly recommend using an IDE to view the markdown, as opposed to GitHub's preview.

Wrote a blog with mdxish and want to share it? Awesome! Open a PR and we'll add it to the examples!

Video Introduction (🔉 Sound on)

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cc416a37-5d33-4452-a5b2-7754e6932fad

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