markdown-templating

Make Meteor templates in .md files!

How to use

meteor add simple:markdown-templating

Check out the example app, in particular example.md.

Make a markdown file inside your Meteor app. Inside your markdown, use {{#template name='templateName'}} to start a template, and {{/template}} to end it. For example:

{{#template name='markdownBody'}}

# Welcome to Meteor!

There's another template included below.

{{> hello}}

{{/template}}

Naturally, you can use helpers and include other templates inside your Markdown as well.

Why would I use this if there's already the {{#markdown}} helper?

• You like to use an editor with live preview (Mou) to edit Markdown files, and it doesn't work with Markdown embedded in HTML.
• With this package, your markdown will be pre-compiled on the server when the app is built instead of compiled on the client every time the page is loaded.
• If you want to make a lot of templates that use Markdown, it's easier and more reasonable to keep them in .md files than .html files.
• Extending the Meteor templating system is fun.

How well tested is this package?

There are a few tests, but they are mostly sanity checks and don't go into testing all of the possible combinations of templates, markdown, and helpers.

Please report issues if you find them!

Known issues/weirdness

1. No error handling - you'll just get a printout that says "parse error" in the console... if you're lucky.