Discussion on: How do browsers render Markdown???

[Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard]

There are libraries that transform markdown files to HTML that is then rendered by the browser.

markdown-it / markdown-it

Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed

markdown-it

Markdown parser done right. Fast and easy to extend.

Live demo

• Follows the CommonMark spec + adds syntax extensions & sugar (URL autolinking, typographer).
• Configurable syntax! You can add new rules and even replace existing ones.
• High speed.
• Safe by default.
• Community-written plugins and other packages on npm.

Table of content

• markdown-it
  • Install
  • Usage examples
    • Simple
    • Init with presets and options
    • Plugins load
    • Syntax highlighting
    • Linkify
  • API
  • Syntax extensions
    • Manage rules
  • Benchmark
  • Support markdown-it
  • Authors
  • References / Thanks

Install

node.js & bower:

npm install markdown-it --save
bower install markdown-it --save

browser (CDN):

• jsDeliver CDN
• cdnjs.com CDN

Usage examples

See also:

• API documentation - for more info and examples.
• Development info - for plugins writers.

Simple

// node.js, "classic" way:
var MarkdownIt = require('markdown-it'),
    md = new MarkdownIt();
var result = md.render('# markdown-it rulezz!');
// node.js,

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The real issue is that Markdown is not a real file format, it's just a small set of simple ideas, but unsufficient in practice, so everyone make his own Markdown.

There are much better file formats like asciidoctor.org/

Unfortunately it's a case of "worse is better" where the worse solution wins because it's more popular

[Aaditya]

Ok, so There are no direct method to render md files. Can you suggest me how can I convert markdown to HTML in flask framework.

[Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard]

I would google "markdown python library"