create-node-blog

📝 Minimalist Markdown to HTML site generator — like a tiny Jekyll, but in one command.

Convert all .md files in a directory into styled .html pages using KartonCSS. Preserves folder structure, skips node_modules, and creates an automatic index.html.

✨ Features

• 📁 Recursively scans for .md files

• 🧼 Skips node_modules/, .git/, .cache/

• 🎨 Outputs clean HTML using KartonCSS

• 📜 Optional custom site title and description

• 📦 Perfect for publishing docs, notes, or static blogs

🚀 Usage

npx create-node-blog <inputDir> <outputDir> [siteTitle] ["site description"]  

👇 Example

npx create-node-blog ./ ./dist "My Notes" "All my markdown files turned into HTML."  

This will:

• Convert every .md in ./ into .html in ./dist/

• Generate ./dist/index.html linking to all files

• Use the provided title and description in the HTML output

🧪 Output Structure Example

If your project looks like:

my-project/  
├── README.md  
├── docs/  
│ └── intro.md  
└── notes/  
└── today.md  

You’ll get:

dist/  
├── README.html  
├── docs/  
│ └── intro.html  
├── notes/  
│ └── today.html  
└── index.html  

🛠 Install as a Dev Tool

For repeated local usage:

npm install -D create-node-blog  
npx create-node-blog ./ ./dist "My Site" "Generated with Markdown"  

📦 Local Development

git clone https://gitlab.com/rodezee/create-node-blog.git
cd create-node-blog  
npm install  
chmod +x index.js  
npm link  

Then test:

create-node-blog ./ ./dist "Test" "Test description"  

📄 License

MIT — by Biensure