downtown

downtown

An updating markdown previewer in a browser

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credit: www.retrojunkie.com/asciiart/building/skylines.htm

getting started

install node package globally

$ npm install -g downtown 

cd into project root and start server

$ cd project
$ ls project
src/
README.md
$ downtown 

open browser to (http://localhost:6969/README.md)

$ echo "# Whoa it updates..." | cat - README.md > temp && mv temp README.md # updates

check back to browser and look for changes

requirements

• browser must support HTML5 EventStream
• OS must support npm package node-watch which depends on the unstable fs.watch