added markdown parsing - working on converting html posts

metadata.js

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+import fs from 'fs';
+import marked from 'marked';
+import highlight from 'highlight.js';
+
+marked.setOptions({
+    header: true,
+    highlight: (code) => {
+        return highlight.highlightAuto(code).value;
+    }
+});
+
+const dir = './posts/';
+const json = {
+    posts: []
+};
+
+//do everything synchronously to keep posts ordered
+function parse_dir(dir, folder_name){
+    const posts = fs.readdirSync(dir);
+    
+    for(let post of posts){
+        const stats = fs.statSync(dir + post);
+        
+        if(stats.isDirectory()){
+            parse_dir(dir + post + '/', post);
+        } else {
+            const file = fs.readFileSync(dir+post, 'utf8');
+            const tokens = marked.lexer(file, null);
+            const path = dir + post;
+            const temp = {
+                path: path.slice(1, path.length),
+                category: folder_name,
+                date: post.slice(0, 10),
+                title: marked('<h2>' + tokens[0].text + '</h2>'),
+                intro: marked(tokens[1].text)
+            }
+            console.log(marked(file));
+            json.posts.push(temp);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+parse_dir(dir, 'posts');
+
+//sort posts by date
+json.posts.sort((a, b) => {
+    return     new Date(b.date) - new Date(a.date);
+});
+
+//output to public path
+fs.writeFile('./dist/metadata.json', JSON.stringify(json,null,4), (err) => {
+    if (err) throw err;
+    console.log("Saved metadata.json");
+})