Markdown to HTML Converter

Background

This project originally started as a simple app to practice working with NPM.

I took some notes with the Bear app for macOS. But the option to convert to HTML was behind a paywall. And so what was a basic nothing app turned into a tool for converting my markdown notes to HTML.

Thanks to this fantastic blog post by James Edwards, I was able to do that in a few hours.

Technologies

• typescript
• markdown-it
• highlight.js
• fs-extra
• live-server (instead of http server)
• babel

Experience

This was my first time working with markdown-it and highlight.js. These two modules did most of the heavy lifting for this app. I'm excited to see what else I can use them for.

Functionality

• Convert markdown document to HTML
• Render HTML in browser with live-server
• Pass file path(s) as an input
• Convert to Word doc
• Convert to PDF