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I hate to be negative, but I'm not entirely sure why this is advantageous over just dumping a bunch of HTML files into a folder. Why can't the code live in <script type="module">'s with `display: block` tagged, using esm.sh for libraries? Why do we have to use Markdown that has to get transpiled over a format that can be natively consumed by the browser?

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Presumably this runs in node, rather than the browser, which might have implications for your dependencies (I know esm.sh shims node core dependencies and does fancy transpilation stuff, but why deal with that if you can just run direct on node).

For a start, it supports TypeScript. And it can install npm packages. And you get all the node.js APIs: for example, you can read/write files on the local hard drive.

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