Show HN: A Standalone/GitHub CLI Extension to Preview GitHub Flavored Markdown

1. gh-gfm-preview

   1 2 94 9.2 Go

   A standalone/GitHub CLI extension to preview GitHub Flavored Markdown, even offline.

   

   I'm assuming it's because the project isn't meant to "Render" markdown, but provide a preview that works offline. That includes hot reloading when the original file changes, which you can't really do with just a client-side library.

   If it was a JS library in addition to providing you a webpage with js in it, it would also need to provide you with a server with a hot reload, and we're back to CLI.

   They are using goldmark library with some extensions[0] to render markdown. And there's also GitHub API for rendering markdown[1] if you're curious.

   References:

   [0]: https://github.com/thiagokokada/gh-gfm-preview/blob/main/int...

   [1]: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/markdown?apiVersion=2022-11-...

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3. Live Server

   2 35 4,563 0.0 JavaScript

   A simple development http server with live reload capability.

   

   fwiw there are plenty of webserver cli's with hotreload capability (https://www.npmjs.com/package/live-server or npx serve + chokidar), this is definitely one of those things that can decomposed to single responsibility tools

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