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Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step

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193 points yaoke259 | 4 comments | 26 Aug 25 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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lelanthran ◴[26 Aug 25 11:00 UTC] No.45024882[source]▶
Maybe I'm not understanding, but why is this "Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI" and not "Turn Markdown into HTML"?

I'm not seeing the value of generating React, Vue or Svelte as opposed to generating DOM components.

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1. threetonesun ◴[26 Aug 25 11:56 UTC] No.45025292[source]▶
It's very silly. Given that Markdown fully supports HTML I have built sites using just Markdown + web components but that's... just how it works.

What's really needed is a better editor experience.

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2. didgeoridoo ◴[26 Aug 25 12:15 UTC] No.45025497[source]▶
Nice discussion on this here just a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865997
3. lelanthran ◴[26 Aug 25 13:27 UTC] No.45026263[source]▶
> Given that Markdown fully supports HTML I have built sites using just Markdown + web components but that's... just how it works.

Agreed. My blog is a single shell script that runs pandoc on all the files in a subdir, generates a new .md file for table of contents, and then uses pandoc to generate a ToC.html file.

That doesn't mean that my the site uses no Javascript - the magic of web components means that I can place `<some-custom-component> ...` in the middle of my .md content and have interactive components in the resulting html.

What would be really useful is decent tooling for this sort of authoring.

4. yaoke259 ◴[26 Aug 25 14:18 UTC] No.45026925[source]▶
this actually uses web components under the hood! the dsl is more secure and easier to write (at least in my opinion). For v2 I'll make the whole design/architecture more polished and web-component oriented, possibly with some sort of verifier/editor support???