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First, I setup mustache (npm package) as the templating language (the npm package hasn’t been updated in two years, so that’s great). Mustache is really simple, it provides a few helper utilities, like replacing variables, or iterating over data,
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Next, I setup a markdown parser, markdown-it. I then created another Mustache lambda for converting markdown to HTML and injecting it in the template output. I also ran the Markdown string through the Mustache parser, so I could use my “media” lambda inside markdown. This is where things got gross in the code.
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This obviously does not work with the Mustache parser. So I had to uninstall another package to decode the HTML entities, and then deal with the original recursive replacement problem. Here’s what the final code looks like:
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Ditch TOML in favor of YAML or JSON 5.
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You can find the full source code for this here.
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