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.

• Install
• API
• Usage examples
• Register the helper
  • templates
  • assemble
  • verb
  • handlebars
  • lodash
• About

(TOC generated by verb using markdown-toc)

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save 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 [Lo-Dash][] 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'

About

Related projects

• assemble: Get the rocks out of your socks! Assemble makes you fast at creating web projects… more | homepage
• handlebars: Handlebars provides the power necessary to let you build semantic templates effectively with no frustration | homepage
• lodash: Lodash modular utilities. | homepage
• template: Render templates using any engine. Supports, layouts, pages, partials and custom template types. Use template… more | homepage
• underscore: JavaScript's functional programming helper library. | homepage
• verb: Documentation generator for GitHub projects. Verb is extremely powerful, easy to use, and is used… more | homepage

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Contributors

Commits	Contributor
14	jonschlinkert
5	doowb
2	almeidap

Building docs

(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)

To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:

$ npm install && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2017, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT License.

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