Building a Blog Platform with Docker #3: Markdown Rendering Quick one-liner: Stop writing HTML for your posts. Parse .md files with YAML frontmatter and render them in Flask. Why This Matters Last time you built a blog that looks like a blog. Teal nav, dark background, editorial post list. Nice. But the post in that list? It's hardcoded HTML. Every time you want a new post, you have to edit a template. That's not a blog platform, that's a website. A real blog platform lets you write a file, drop it in a folder, and have it appear. That's what Markdown gives you. Why Markdown? You write in plain text: no <p> tags, no & , no forgetting to close a <div> It's readable as-is, even before rendering Every major writing tool supports it Easy to version control in git By the end of this post, you'll be able to drop a .md file into a folder and have Flask render it as a proper HTML page.…