Web Connection includes support for adding raw Markdown files with .md extension, into your Web application's folder structure and have those files served as HTML merged into a well-known template.

It's easy to drop a markdown file into your Web project like this:

and have it rendered as a standalone HTML page.

For this particular Markdown document I simply picked a Markdown file from an old Weblog post, along with an associated image and dropped that into a folder.

And voila - we have a valid Web page from the Markdown just like that.

How it works

To get this to work you need Web Connection 6.25 or later.

• Create a Markdown file with an .md extension
• Drop it anywhere into the site

The page should be served as HTML from the Markdown using the stock template.

Internally Web Connection uses a *.md scriptmap (now added by default in new projects) and maps it to the wwScriptmaps.prg handler. This handler specifically handles MD files, parses the Markdown to HTML and then embeds the content into a fixed, well-known template:

~/Views/Markdown_Template.wc

You can customize this template as needed. The default template, simply captures the apps layout page and embeds the markdown inside:

<%
    pcPageTitle = IIF(type("pcTitle") = "C", pcTitle, pcFilename)
%>
<% Layout="~/views/_layoutpage.wcs" %>

<div class="container">
    <%= pcMarkdown %>
</div>


<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/lib/highlightjs//styles/vs2015.css">
<script src="~/lib/highlightjs/highlight.pack.js"></script>
<script>
    function highlightCode() {
        var pres = document.querySelectorAll("pre>code");
        for (var i = 0; i < pres.length; i++) {
            hljs.highlightBlock(pres[i]);
        }
    }
    highlightCode();
</script>

Two variables have to exist in this page:

• pcTitle - the title of the page which is extracted from the document. Either a YAML header if there is one, or the first # tag in the document. Otherwise the file name is used for the title.

• pcMarkdown - this is the rendered HTML from the markdown document.