[Aelius]

Why would you want to constantly recompile documents every time you make an edit to them? Why would you want to juggle two files for every document you produce?

[kryptk]

For what it's worth, this is the problem GitLab Pages solves. A simple "git push" to a properly to figured repo will rebuild and redeploy your static site, the actual html output doesnt go into the repo.

[askmike]

This is for people who don't want to setup and manage a deployment pipeline hooked up to a git source code repo.

[dustingetz]

Sooo a live editor like this? http://www2.hyperfiddle.net/:markdown/ If you like that, here's a little tweetstorm about hyperfiddle markdown: https://twitter.com/dustingetz/status/1048686717975388160