allow markdown in posts

[drgorb]

in order to format one's post it would be nice to be able to use markdown. there is a meteor package for that

[pmuens]

Good idea. Do you know what Meteor package serves this well?

[josephdburdick]

@pmuens I've had good luck with https://github.com/chuangbo/meteor-marked

[pmuens]

@josephdburdick Thanks man! I'll look into it!

[zaverichintan]

https://atmospherejs.com/meteor/markdown It says it's inbuilt.

[mattvella07]

Yes the package is an internal Meteor package, but that doesn't mean that all fields are parsed for markdown by default. If you try to include some markdown in a post it is displayed as plain text, so there still is some work that needs to be done in order to format posts using markdown.

[zaverichintan]

Everything inside markdown is considered markdown so make sure you do this:

{{#markdown}}{{>innerPreview}}{{/markdown}} Instead of

{{#markdown}} {{>innerPreview}} {{/markdown}} The jquery wouldn't work because {{markdown}} is rendered before the DOM is put in place.

Instead use a session

Template.hello.markdown_data = function() {return Session.get("markdown_data")}); Then your template

{{#markdown}}{{{markdown_data}}}{{/markdown}} Then store your markdown document in

Session.set("markdown_data","");

Found the above thing here- http://stackoverflow.com/a/17030896/4500248

[pmuens]

Great find! Anyone up to implement this?

[zaverichintan]

I tried doing it but then entire thing becomes markdown supported.

[pmuens]

@zaverichintan Thank you for investigation. I think that this is a great addition (even if everything will be "markdownable".

[zaverichintan]

Done.