Output only a html file ? about markdown-styles

[netmikey]

👍 While manually using html-inline probably works, I think it'd be nice if this feature was part of the generate-md command line tool.

[mike-usa]

Being new to generate-md, I was quite surprised a packed HTML file wasn't a default output feature.

I came here looking to convert my one standalone markdown file into a more presentable HTML file for those pesky readers that don't like reading markdown 😄 similar to another project I was looking at, markdown-to-html, which doesn't seem to include the nice code highlighting features that generate-md includes.

I was pleasantly surprised generate-md can convert a whole directory of input files. Even though that isn't part of my current use case, I am considering rescheming to make use of this. Still, a packed output would be nice.

[mixu]

this is interesting - it might be possible to write a tool that inlines everything given a set of HTML files which could then be run on the generate-md output

[mixu]

actually, looks like substack already wrote that - perhaps you could try running this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-inline

If it works well, I'd be happy to add a section into the readme with instructions on how to convert the output into a single file.

[cdtinney]

I can confirm that html-inline does work.

Rough code for my solution:

// Delete existing file so folder can be created w/ same name
deleteExistingHtmlFile(filePath):
// Generate HTML package
markdownStyles.render(
    markdownStyles.resolveArgs({
      input: inputPath
      output: filePath,
    }),
    () => {
      var inline = inliner({
        basedir: folderPath // Must use folder path of the HTML package
      });
      
      var readStream = fs.createReadStream(filePath);
      readStream.pipe(inline).pipe(concat(body => {
          var bodyUtf8 = body.toString('utf8');
          // Delete HTML package
          deleteFolderRecursive(folderPath);
          // Save the inlined HTML file
          fs.writeFileSync(filePath, bodyUtf8);
        }));
    });

[v-ko]

+1 I would also appreciate this feature being included with generate-md as an option