wash-md

A hot reloading markdown viewer written in 30 lines of Imba that uses Github's attractive markdown css. Renders the most recently edited markdown file recursing subdirectories.

Installation

npm i -g wash-md

This installs an md command.

Usage

• Run md in any directory.
• Navigate to localhost:3000.
• Save a markdown file in the same directory or any subdirectory.

Better Usage

You can run md in your home directory with pm2:

cd ~
PORT=4487 npx pm2 start md
# choose whatever port you want

and just leave it running.

Now whenever you save a markdown file anywhere on your computer, it'll render to localhost at your chosen port, which is very quick to get to if you use my app fuzzyhome or a bash alias.

Here are some potential bash/zsh aliases to get you started:

alias m="open 'http://localhost:4487'"
alias psmd="PORT=4487 npx pm2 start md --name wash-md"
alias pdmd="npx pm2 delete wash-md"

open is from MacOS but on another OS you can probably find a package that does the same thing.