By now I know most of the basic markdown syntax by heart.

Still, in most cases, I wanna take a look at the preview before pushing a GitHub README.md. Especially if a cool ASCII art is included ;)

Today I Learned about markdown-live, a useful node package that fires up a new browser tab with the preview of your markdown file.

To make it even more awesome, it watches for changes in the file and updates the preview on save!

Usage

• watch markdown files in the current directory

  $ mdlive
  

• watch a specific file

  $ mdlive -f <file-name>
  

Installation

$ npm install -g markdown-live

Demo