2022-09-03
Displaying markdown in a Deno webapp
Markdown is a markup language commonly used to generate technical documentation. It is not has feature rich as PDF or HTML/CSS. For instance, markdown documents are left-justified by default. But markdown's limited markup options make it easy to use and remember.
Displaying a markdown document in an HTML page requires that the markdown syntax
be transformed to HTML and adding CSS styling. This article will demonstrate two
options that can be used in a Deno webapp, deno-gfm and marked-js.
Unfortunately there use seems to be framework specific at this time.
Using markdown with Fresh.
This article will show you how to do that using gfm, a library created by Deno core team member Luca Canosnato.
There are a number of Markdown varieties. The gfm library renders Github flavored markdown.
deno-gfm
The deno-gfm library was created by Deno core team member Luca Canosnato. The gfm library renders Github flavored markdown.
The deno-gfm library wraps the marked-js library adding styling options to the marked-js library.