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Products that do what Quikdown – 17 KB bidirectional Markdown parser and rich-fence editor does

Hi HN- This past year I've built and maintained Quikdown, a bidirectional markdown parser and companion editor in pure js, with batteries included fences for rendering rich content. Try it live: https://deftio.github.io/quikdown/pages/edit/ The motivation was working with many different LLM frameworks and wanting to test tool calling and collaborative editing. Often I just wanted a pretty final output with rich support for diagrams, math, or other rendered content but, keep it editable. So a user (often me) could just work on the final (rendered) output while…

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    Hey HN! I originally built “html-to-markdown” back in 2018 (while still in high school) to handle complex HTML conversions where other libraries struggled. Now, I’ve released v2 — a complete rewrite designed to handle even more edge cases. It supports entire websites with a high accuracy. Example use: I’ve used it in my RSS reader to strip HTML down to clean Markdown, similar to the "Reader Mode" in your Browser. It can be used as a Golang package or as an CLI. Give it a try & tell me what edge cases you encounter!

    2024 · github.com

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