Hey there everyone ,
If you've created blog on dev.to , you're might be familiar with blog generator with md.
I'll share how you can create that type of generator with only js.

libraries to use.

• Showdown.js @showdownjs
• Markdown.css by sindresorhus @markdown-css

showdown.js

Showdownjs is a library which converts markdown code into HTML code.
From

# header
**Bold**
_italic_

To

<h1>header</h1>
<strong>bold</strong>
<em>italic</em>

How to use showdown.js

You should visit to official docs for advanced level tools of library.
I'll show you how you can convert the md into html with GitHub flavour of markdown.

var my_markdown_input = document.querySelector("#mdinput") , converter = new showdown.converter();
var converted_text = converter.makeHtml(my_markdown_input);
// converted_text will be variable having html code 

Markdown css

The style created by sindresorhus which looks like github markdown body.

How to use markdown css ?

The markdown css by sindresorhus is very simple to use. You just have to add classname "markdown-body" and it will convert html into GitHub like markdown styled html.

<div class="markdown-body"></div>

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