DocsForIt!

Markdown files as View

Install Markdown view support

If you are fimilar with the markdown syntax and you may want to use it instead of .html or .ejs views. Since each view engine registers on a specific type, we'll add one for .md files.

To achieve this, easily grab the markdown-views plugin from the plugin repository.

Now you should have a plugins folder which looks like this:

plugins/
    markdown-views/
    ...

Homepage with markdown

Remove the generated views/Homepage.ejs.

Now we need to use the markdown views. Create a new file called views/Homepage.md:

$ vim views/Homepage.md

with this contents:

## Welcome to DocsForIt!

Let's create DocsForIt! Sometimes you have a pretty neat piece of something
but have no info how to use it.

This small tool helps you to maintain the documentation and collaborate with
others.

### Under the hood

The source for DocsForIt! my be found [docsforit github page]
[docsforit-github] and is released for the public domain.

  [docsforit-github]: http://github.com/DracoBlue/docsforit

This application was created by using the [spludo framework] [spludo-framework].

 [spludo-framework]: http://spludo.com
                     (A powerful webframework for node.JS)

Running the app again with:

$ node run_server.js

Now we see already h2+h3 and the little text as clean html.