I’m looking at this one:
But am open to suggestions. I’m so used to writing everything in markdown I just want a lightweight editor for everything from composing notes to short documents.
PDF export is a plus.
VS Code?
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I use Remarkable.
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There’s an add on which does a live side by side render of the mark down as you write it.
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this deserves a try for the name alone 
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Atom works fine too. That´s what I´ve been using. It tries to be a little like Visual Studio Code. But it works well as a markdown editor. And that´s all I ever use it for. You don´t need to install anything either. It comes with the markdownview (plugin?) out of the box.
It also has git integration. Would not be a bad idea to use that. But I´ve always just put my markdown notes into dropbox until now. Would not necessarily recommend that part, since they have dropped Linux support. I´ll probably try nextcloud some time or just use gitlab.
That would also work. 
Never really gave it a try for that pupose. Since atom is now basically my dedicated markdown editor. It always opens the only folder I ever use with it. If nothing else that´s more convinient than using VS Code for that imo.
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I use Atom for most other things. Is there a way to have these in Atom?
Both Atom and VS are not as lightweight as I was hoping for, but if either are the best solution, then that’s fine.
Double click on one file for text view, right click => markdownview on it again. If it isn´t in split screen view already, witch it does for me by default when it´s empty before, you move it.
There is nothing you have to install for the side by side view to work.
About PDF export, I´m not sure never needed it. For me the point of markdown notes is that they are simple plain text files that need no space. I don´t send it to other people usually. They are note for me, by me.
But there is this
Never tried it.
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It’s like atom but more stable (from my experience at least). Good support from Microsoft, lots of good plugins too.
I know, but I put it into the “developement tools” bin for me. I like to have a seperate program for note taking, so that it opens the folder right away where my notes are. (as I said already)
Git uses markdown for readme files and so forth. That´s probably the main reasons these editors have good markdown support.
Thinking about what I just wrote… Gitlab can render and edit markdown files! 
Oh my gosh, why did I never think about that? That might just make it that much better compared to dropbox, nextcloud & co! Viewing it on mobile without needing a program or anything.