I share a folder between my Obsidian vault and the folder PineDocs uses with Syncthing (because the machine that runs PineDocs is not my laptop), so as soon as I save my files the site is immediately updated, but PineDocs was not designed with Obsidian in mind, the links work but not the advanced features Obsidian offers.
On the other hand, Perlite [1] is (I never really tested it but it looks cool) designed with Obsidian in mind so maybe it supports more features.
If you want to publish a website directly from Obsidian + support the Obsidian developers monthly (), you can give Obsidian Publish (https://obsidian.md/publish) a try. I use it for my notes and as a demonstration website for one of my projects, works well enough for those use cases.
I can totally appreciate that. That pricing for Publish is way out of whack for my goals. My particular vault se case might only update once or twice a month (it's all already written), so nearly $200 a year for something so static just doesn't make sense.
This is music to my ears(eyes?)! And, something I've been searching for my obsidian vault. I'm not a developer, could you expand just a bit about your PineDocs workflow for Obsidian? Especially: does it handle note-to-note links and transclusions?