Markdown Processor
The gist: Build a library and command-line tool that takes a Markdown file, converts it to HTML, and outputs it to stdout.
There will definitely be libraries out there that already do this for a given language, usually many of them. But the fun here is in taking a pretty manageable specification like CommonMark and writing your own parser and translator to HTML.
Spec
Let's call the program and lib marcus.
Command line:
marcus foo.md > foo.html
It'd be great if you could send it via pipes too, like cat foo.md | marcus > foo.html
If you're building the CLI out, it'd also be nice to have a library that you can use in that language as well.
Marus.to_html("# Hi\n[my link](/bye)\n")
Would output:
<h1>Hi</h1>
<p><a href="/bye">my link</a></p>
Concepts
- Parsing text into a data structure and converting it into HTML
- Pipes and CLI if you go that route
Stretch Goals
- Support converting HTML to MD
- Support bulk converting multiple files
- Add the ability to wrap the generated page in a template of HTML