Lobster.js – Extended Markdown with layout blocks and footnotes
Hi HN! I built lobster.js which is an extended Markdown parser that renders directly in the browser — no build tool, no framework, no configuration. The entire setup is a single script tag: import { loadMarkdown } from "https://hacknock.github.io/lobsterjs/lobster.js"; loadMarkdown("./content.md", document.getElementById("content")); It's particularly useful for GitHub Pages sites where you want Markdown-driven content without pulling in Jekyll or Hugo. --- What makes it different from marked.js or markdown-it: Standard parsers convert Markdown to HTML — that's it.…
Lobster.js – Extended Markdown with layout blocks and footnotes launched on March 8, 2026 with 7 votes, #1,458 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
A tool to convert Markdown into simple and rich web pages. - Hacknock/lobsterjs
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN! I built lobster.js which is an extended Markdown parser that renders directly in the browser — no build tool, no framework, no configuration. The entire setup is a single script tag: <script type="module"> import { loadMarkdown } from "https://hacknock.github.io/lobsterjs/lobster.js"…
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