mdgarden

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About mdgarden

mdgarden is a lightweight, framework-free static-site generator: point it at a folder of .md files and it renders a complete digital garden — search, backlinks, tags, an interactive graph view, dark mode, math, and syntax highlighting — with no runtime framework and no native dependencies. It speaks Obsidian-flavored Markdown, so an existing Obsidian vault (or any pile of notes) works out of the box.

This very vault, the docs you're reading, is also the project's manual-testing fixture — see Contributing for how that works.

Why it exists

Most static-site generators that handle wikilinks and a graph view pull in a full frontend framework. mdgarden is built around the opposite bet: ship the smallest possible amount of JavaScript and CSS, no native build dependencies, and a single binary if you want one — see Architecture for how the codebase is organized to keep that promise.

Author & license

Built and maintained by Mohammed Thanseer. Source is published under MIT.

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See Donate for ways to support development, including a live example site built with mdgarden.

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