serve-markdown

A connect middleware, parses markdown files to html.

Install

$ npm i serve-markdown

API

var serveMarkdown = require('serve-markdown')

serveMarkdown(root, options)

Create a new middleware function to serve markdown files from within a given root directory. The file to serve will be determined by combining req.url with the provided root directory. When a file is not found, instead of sending a 404 response, this module will instead call next() to move on to the next middleware, allowing for stacking and fall-backs.

options

Accept below properties in the options object.

template

Optional path to an HTML template. Defaults to a built-in template.

The following tokens are replaced in templates:

• {{title}} the title of the page
• {{style}} the specified styleSheet
• {{content}} html contents compiled from the markdown file
• {{classes}} the specified classes for the wrapper of the {{content}}

title

{Function | String} Optional, the return-value/value will be used for replacing the title token in the template. Default to the name of the served file.

• {Function} the return value of the function will be used for replacing the {{title}} token in the template. The function will be called with one argument: name - the name(basename, like demo.md) of the served file.
• {String} Used as the replacement of the {{title}} token of the template

style

Optional

path to a css stylesheet file Or a stylesheet string. Default to a built-in stylesheet.

classes

Optional

string OR array, which will be used as the class of the wapper div of the {{content}} token. Default to sm-content. The default stylesheet is also written based on this class.

Examples

var connect = require('connect');
var serveMarkdown = require('serve-markdown');
 
var app = connect();
// serve markdown file
app.use(serveMarkdown('/Users/lizhiye/weekly', {
    title: function (title) {
        // file: /Users/lizhiye/weekly/weekly-report.md
        // title: weekly-report.md
        return title + ' -zhiye'
    },
    classes: 'md mdcontent'
}));
 
app.listen(8765);