zeedown

Tiny Slack-style markdown renderer for Node and browser, with CLI.

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Installation

npm i -S zeedown or yarn add zeedown

Usage

zeedown(text: string): string

zeedown takes one parameters: a required string.

Difference from standard MD:

• Strong is a single set of asterisks
• Emphasis is a single set of underscores
• Strikethrough is a single set of tildes
• No headers

This is essentially the same as Slack's basic Markdown.

import md from 'zeedown'
// or
const md = require('zeedown')

md('some string')
md(process.argv[2])
$('.foo').replaceWith(md($('.bar').text()))

CLI

zeedown comes with a small CLI. Usage:

cat foo.md | zeedown > foo.html

Supported Features

• Strong (Bold)
• Emphasis (Italic)
• Deletions (Strikethrough)
• Inline code
• Fenced code blocks (not indent)
• Blockquotes
• Ordered/unordered lists

Why Not Feature X?

If you want links, images, syntax highlighting, and other fancy stuff, you're probably better off using a full-featured implementation. Try marked, it's super popular.

Status

Everything specified works. ol, ul, and blockquote are a little funky (only work if not indented at all, need an extra pass to strip extra tags).

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