So you’ve got a collection of markdown files. Maybe its a personal knowledge base, or a team wiki, or project documentation, or even a statically-generated website like tygertec.
There’s a lot to love about markdown :
Easy to edit Easy to learn Fairly easy to read Plain text format will be readable forever Easy to throw in a Git repo for change tracking In fact, I’m writing this blog post in markdown.
Grab a bowl of buttery popcorn because the saga continues! The end of the previous chapter saw our intrepid little Rails app camping happily on Heroku. This latest chapter in the hosting chronicles brings with it a twist: not just a change in host, but a complete migration from one programming language to another.
The app is no longer on Heroku, and it’s no longer written in Ruby or Rails. It’s written in JavaScript, hosted by Netlify, and it’s getting by with a little help from its new friend, Vue.js.
Onward for the Why’s, How’s, and Gottchas of the switch.