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I created this joke-y "framework" to build a website, or a blog if you will, from markdown files. The idea is to (ab)use Apache's default directory listing. The "index" page reads the Apache's HTML of a given directory and produces a list of articles. When the user clicks, the markdown file (corresponding to an article) is converted to HTML on the fly.
The result: a blog with no build process. To publish a new article, you just drop a new MD file.
Obviously this is a half-joke and the SEO of such a site is in the trash, because the whole site is JS-generated. But does SEO matter anymore anyway?
Lizzy.js source code is here github.com/stoyan/Lizzy.js
And an example site fully, powered by this "framework", is highperformancewebfonts.com
Source code highlighting is supported.
Drafts are supported too, just prefix the .md file with a _. and you can preview the way it renders, but it's not listed on the index page.
All you have to do is copy-paste the library and configure it like so:
window.__lizzyconf = {
index: '/posts/', // where the MD files live
root: document.getElementById('root'), // where to render it all
read: '/read/', // for bookmarking URLs
}
There's some extra stuff to make it all more useful, you can head out to the docs.
This content originally appeared on phpied.com and was authored by Stoyan
Stoyan | Sciencx (2025-06-01T04:09:37+00:00) Introducing Lizzy.js. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/06/01/introducing-lizzy-js/
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