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Markdown template helper. It uses remarkable to render markdown in templates. Should work with Handlebars, lodash, or any template engine that supports helper functions.

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@koddsson/helper-markdown

Markdown template helper. Uses remarkable to render markdown in templates. Should work with Handlebars, Lo-Dash or any template engine that supports helper functions.

Please consider following this project's author, Jon Schlinkert, and consider starring the project to show your ❤️ and support.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save @koddsson/helper-markdown

API

var markdown = require('helper');

Returns a function that returns the helper, allowing an options object to be passed:

var hbs = require('handlebars');
hbs.registerHelper('markdown', markdown([options]));

Example

Pass a custom highlight function for syntax highlighting to remarkable, the markdown renderer:

var hljs = require('highlight.js');
var markdown = require('helper-markdown');

function highlight(code, lang) {
  try {
    try {
      return hljs.highlight(lang, code).value;
    } catch (err) {
      if (!/Unknown language/i.test(err.message)) {
        throw err;
      }
      return hljs.highlightAuto(code).value;
    }
  } catch (err) {
    return code;
  }
}

hbs.registerHelper('markdown', markdown({
  highlight: highlight  
}));

Usage examples

With Handlebars:

<div>
{{#markdown}}
# Heading

> this is markdown

foo bar baz
{{/markdown}}
</div>

Results in:

<h1>Heading</h1>
<blockquote>
<p>this is markdown</p>
</blockquote>
<p>foo bar baz</p>

Register the helper

This should work with any engine, here are a few examples

templates

The templates library supports any templates engine supported by consolidate. To register the helper with templates:

var templates = require('templates');
var app = templates();

app.helper('markdown', require('helper-markdown'));

assemble

To register the helper for use with assemble v0.6.0 and higher:

assemble.helper('markdown', require('helper-markdown'));

verb

Register the helper for use with verb:

var verb = require('verb');
verb.helper('markdown', require('helper-markdown'));

handlebars

To register the helper with handlebars:

var handlebars = require('handlebars');
handlebars.registerHelper('markdown', require('helper-markdown'));

lodash

To register the helper with lodash or underscore:

var markdown = require('helper-markdown');

// as a mixin
_.mixin({markdown: markdown});
_.template('<%= _.markdown("# heading") %>', {});
//=> '<h1>heading</h1>\n'

// passed on the context
_.template('<%= markdown("# heading") %>', {markdown: markdown});
//=> '<h1>heading</h1>\n'

// as an import
var settings = {imports: {markdown: markdown}};
_.template('<%= markdown("# heading") %>', {}, settings);
//=> '<h1>heading</h1>\n'

Author

Jon Schlinkert

License

Copyright © 2021, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT License.


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