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Comment by fatih-erikli | Hacker News Reader

I use Python for that. It's just a few lines of code

template.html:

  <header><h3>%(header)s</h3></header>
  <div>%(content)s</div>
  <footer>%(footer)s</footer>

generate.py:

  content = """# This is a markdown content"""
  from markdown import markdown
  with open('output.html', 'w') as f:
    f.write(open('template.html').read() % {
      'header': 'welcome',
      'content': markdown.markdown(content),
      'footer': 'amazing company inc'
    })

for serving it:

  python3 -m http.server

it will be running on 127.0.0.1:8000

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Python is severe overkill here. You only need "cat" and maybe "sed" for that.

Surely it is possible to do it with sed, but can you show me, how?

Something like that might work I guess

cat template.html | sed s/content/$(markdowncompiler content.md)/

That’s a sed-injection bug.

The best kind of bugs!

I wanted to be able to create new layouts without touching the precompiler. To rely only on HTML/CSS/Markdown to code the frontend. You can't code partials within the HTML file with your solution.

Actually it's possible too

  class partial(dict):
  ...   def __getitem__(self, k):
  ...     return open(k).read()

So we will render the template like this

template.html:

  <header><h3>%(header)s</h3></header>
  <div>%(content)s</div>
  <footer>%(footer.html)s</footer>

generate.py

  content = """# This is a markdown content"""
  with open('output.html', 'w') as f:
    f.write(open('template.html').read() %  partial({
      title: 'Velkommen',
      content: markdown.markdown('markdown content')
    }))

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