Topic: express

Markdown blog with Express and EJS

Build a content site where each article is a Markdown file with front matter, parsed once at startup and rendered with EJS. Covers a tiny front-matter parser, a marked renderer that marks external and sponsored links, reading-time estimates for languages without spaces, and generating sitemap.xml.

Deploy Express to Cloud Run from source

A minimal, production-ready way to run an Express app on Cloud Run: the Dockerfile, reading PORT, a deploy script in package.json, scaling to zero with a small memory limit, and the mistakes that cost the first hour.