This script reads in a folder of Markdown files, notes all the [[wiki-style links]] between them, then create an index (JSON format) with their indexes and backlinks ("referenced_by" field).

To install from this repo, run:

yarn global add https://github.com/ValentinViennot/np-obsidian-index-wikilinks.git

npm install -g https://github.com/ValentinViennot/np-obsidian-index-wikilinks.git

index-wikilinks path/to/folder/containing/md/files index.json

That will run it once; you'll need to create a cron job or a launch daemon to run it regularly.

If you store your notes in a Git repository and would like to run it on every push, see this Github Actions Workflow from Rajesh Shashi Kumar.

You can use the provided .devcontainer config in VSCode.

npm install
npm run build

Inspired by the work of Andy Matuschak