This looks real interesting

[tyeeman]

However, when I drag and drop the index.md file into Firefox I get this -

Fatal error

Network down or host unreachable

If I click "edit" and type something new then save it the edit area goes blank.
What am I doing wrong?

Update - OK I read the docs and started a server. Works now but looks like you missed enabling the sidebar in index.html. I copied from your docs and now I get the sidebar.

[girobusan]

Thank you! Yes, there was some issues with distribution files, take a look at new release — actually, it's the first one, which may be called "public release".

[JayGoldberg]

Agreed, interesting. I've been using CMS.js which works just fine but would like it to be able to render posts from S3 or GCS or Google Drive. Have you considered forking that and continuing that project?

Blogtini was another one.

[girobusan]

@JayGoldberg Thank you for pointing me to blogtini, it's brilliant idea. Just awesome.

MMDS has very special set of restrictions. The main goal of it is an ability to quick publish any set of markdown documents. Which can be used in other contexts (convert to pdf, drop to CMS, ...you name it) without editing, so:

• No front matter
• No restrictions on file names
• No server setup

And that means, that it can not automatically build lists of pages. It's not that bad when your goal is to publish documentation or something alike, but lists are vital for more "web site like" approach. Or you'll need to add every page you've wrote to lists manually... nooo....

For example, I use MMDS for building "mini sites" for my students — I can edit and expand it in no time, I can use materials from there easily (as it is plain markdown), I can convert the site to pdf... and all of this literally in no time. That's a goal. For websity web site I'd use some other tool.

Look also at my IMP! project — it can display page without JS and run embedded editor even without local server.

[JayGoldberg]

Gotcha. Yeah I'm just playing with CMS.js to do blogging, since I wanted to avoid a build environment etc, but still wanted to dynamically add pages and have them added to the site. I wanted tagging and search etc so the frontmatter is important to me.

[girobusan]

Looks like you can add pages dynamically to CMS.js. I'm thinking about some method for maintaining lists of pages in unobtrusive way, but still have no ideas.