serving markdown directly : any suggestions?

[John MacFarlane]

+++ Mayuresh Kathe [Feb 04 15 13:57 ]:
>hi,
>
>have been tinkering with markdown for a few hours now, so am still a 
>noob.
>
>would like to use it for a documentation project which will be served 
>over the web.
>
>need to know if there's any way to transform markdown content to 
>(x)html on the fly at the web server level?

I'm not recommending this approach, but if you really want to do this you could use an nginx module compiled against a C Markdown library.  This would give you maximum performance and not involve scripting languages at all.

Here's an example: https://github.com/jbfavre/ngx-markdown-module
Note the cautions in the README.