jorgemrisco / md-live-server

Server that renders markdown files and live updates the page each time that the file is updated

md-live-server

Server that renders markdown files and live updates the page each time that the file is updated.

Usage

Put the binary file md-live-server in your $PATH, and then go to the directory where are the markdown files that want to live render, and just use:

> md-live-server

And then go to the browser at http://127.0.0.1:8080

Warning for vim / nvim users: vim by default selects the writting strategy, and sometimes writes directly to the files and other times renames the old file and writes a new one. This is solved by adding this line to the .vimrc / init.vim file:

set backupcopy=yes

Features

• server rendering .md files
• live reload when .md file changes
• directory files list on / endpoint
• LaTex support
• graphviz
• colour <code> with syntax highlighting