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Direct link to the article Parsing Markdown into an Automated Table of Contents
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Parsing Markdown into an Automated Table of Contents

A table of contents is a list of links that allows you to quickly jump to specific sections of content on the same page. It benefits long-form content because it shows the user a handy overview of what content there …

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Lisi Linhart on Nov 13, 2020
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This is a neat little HTML preprocessor from Giuseppe Gurgone. It has very few features, but one of them is HTML includes, which is something I continue to be baffled that HTML doesn’t support natively. There are loads of ways …

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Chris Coyier on Oct 21, 2020 (Updated on Oct 22, 2020)
Direct link to the article Using Markdown and Localization in the WordPress Block Editor
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Using Markdown and Localization in the WordPress Block Editor

If we need to show documentation to the user directly in the WordPress editor, what is the best way to do it?

Since the block editor is based on React, we may be tempted to use React components and HTML …

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Leonardo Losoviz on Sep 23, 2020
Direct link to the article Working With MDX Custom Elements and Shortcodes
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Working With MDX Custom Elements and Shortcodes

MDX is a killer feature for things like blogs, slide decks and component documentation. It allows you to write Markdown without worrying about HTML elements, their formatting and placement while sprinkling in the magic of custom React components when necessary.…

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Agney Menon on May 7, 2020
Direct link to the article An Introduction to MDXJS
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An Introduction to MDXJS

Markdown has traditionally been a favorite format for programmers to write documentation. It’s simple enough for almost everyone to learn and adapt to while making it easy to format and style content. It was so popular that commands from Markdown …

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Agney Menon on Mar 25, 2020
Direct link to the article Embedded Content in Markdown
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Embedded Content in Markdown

Markdown supports HTML, so if you need to, say, embed a YouTube video, you can just copy and paste the embed code from them, drop it into a Markdown document, and you should be good to go. With YouTube specifically, …

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Chris Coyier on Dec 30, 2019
Direct link to the article How to Modify Nodes in an Abstract Syntax Tree
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How to Modify Nodes in an Abstract Syntax Tree

One of the more powerful concepts I’ve stumbled across recently is the idea of abstract syntax trees, or ASTs. If you’ve ever studied alchemy, you may recall that the whole motivation for alchemists was to discover some way to transform …

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Jason Lengstorf on Dec 26, 2019 (Updated on Jan 2, 2020)
Direct link to the article Front-End Documentation, Style Guides and the Rise of MDX
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Front-End Documentation, Style Guides and the Rise of MDX

You can have the best open source project in the world but, if it doesn’t have good documentation, chances are it’ll never take off. In the office, good documentation could save you having to repeatedly answer the same questions. Documentation …

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Ollie Williams on May 23, 2019
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Creating Cue Files from Markdown

Pretty specific, huh? While we’re going to do exactly what the title says, this post is more about a learning exercise and an example of getting help on the internet.…

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Chris Coyier on Dec 15, 2017
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Dealing with Spacing in Compiled Markdown Articles

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Good thinking and exploration by Sebastian Eberlein. I’m a firm believer that you’re doing yourself a favor if you blog in Markdown, because it gives you clean HTML output that isn’t littered with classes very likely won’t last forever.…

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Apr 13, 2017
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Little Stuff about Markdown I Always Forget and have to Google

This is mostly for me. These are the little things that sometimes confuse me about Markdown and I find myself having to search the web for. So I’ll write them down. Blogging as memory extension.

Know that your mileage may …

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Chris Coyier on Apr 5, 2017
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