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Hello folks, I am planning to make some kind of blogging application . Which one should i use to store the blog contents ? markdown or html ? While doing it do i need any kind of parser or not ? If needed then suggest me some of them .
It depends. If you want simple texts, images, links and lists. Markdown is enough.
But, if you want to Embed Iframes (e.g. CodePen), have dynamic layout etc. you will need HTML.
If you mean Purifier/Sanitizer. Yes it is important. https://github.com/stevebauman/purify
Is this for a personal blog or a blog platform with other users?
@Sinnbeck personal blog.
@sampang for my blog I just use markdown. I write it all to a file and load it using orbit https://github.com/sinnbeck/sinnbeck.dev
@Sinnbeck thank you for sharing. I ll look through it.
@sampang be aware that it's really simple. No interface for adding posts etc as I am the only user. I just write the markdown files directly
@Sinnbeck ok.
If you use Markdown, then you will obviously need a parser, yes – that’s how Markdown works. You write Markdown, the parser turns it into HTML. Without a parser, you’ll just see a bunch of unformatted code-like text on the page.
@kokoshneta okey. i ll keep that in mind.
For markdown Laravel already has a 'parser' here…
Illuminate\Support\Str::markdown
Converts GitHub flavored Markdown into HTML.
@webrobert thank you !
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