I wanted the same, ie speed with ease of templating, so I made Griffin[1] which uses handlebars templates and can parse 5000 markdown pages in ~8 seconds on my machine.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pawandubey&#x2F;griffin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pawandubey&#x2F;griffin</a>