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Discussion on: What is README.md?

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Chittoji Murali Sree Krishna

These are used to show the info about the repos in GitHub or in a some apps like after creating a react app there will be some .md files created in the background with some info in them, .md is markdown language, markdown languages is mostly used for information or steps about a particular file/folder, we can change README to any but it officially instructs people this particular file is for reading purpose, but the fun fact is even the html tags work in .md files

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Viraj Lakshitha Bandara

Yeah, that's true every HTML tag can be used in README files

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Chittoji Murali Sree Krishna

yeah and right now this posts also works a kind of .md files, just try checking them

markdown

this is a option

print("hello world");
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