Advanced Markdown Features with Goldmark

Now that we're using Goldmark, we have access to much more advanced Markdown features!

Text Formatting

You can use all the standard formatting options:

• Bold text with **bold** or __bold__
• Italic text with *italic* or _italic_
• Bold and italic with ***text***
• Strikethrough with ~~text~~
• Inline code with backticks

Lists

Ordered Lists

1. First item
2. Second item
   1. Nested item
   2. Another nested item
3. Third item

Unordered Lists

• Item one
• Item two
  • Nested item
  • Another nested item
• Item three

Task Lists

• Completed task
• Incomplete task
• Another completed task

Tables

Blockquotes

This is a blockquote. It can contain multiple paragraphs.

Like this second paragraph.

Nested blockquotes are also possible:

This is nested inside the first blockquote.

Code Examples

Here's some syntax-highlighted code:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello from MDBlog!")
}

// JavaScript with proper highlighting
function processMarkdown(text) {
    const parser = new MarkdownParser();
    return parser.parse(text);
}

const result = processMarkdown('# Hello World');
console.log(result);

Links and Images

Here's a link to Parsedown documentation.

You can also use reference-style links: Parsedown GitHub.

Horizontal Rules

Goldmark](https://github.com/yuin/goldmark) documentation.

You can also use reference-style links: Goldmark GitHub.

Or with asterisks:

HTML Support

Goldmark is configured to be safe by default, but it supports standard Markdown.

Mathematical Expressions

While Goldmark doesn't natively support LaTeX math, you can always add KaTeX or MathJax via the JavaScript front matter feature:

E = mc²

Conclusion

With Goldmark, MDBlog now supports the full CommonMark specification plus GitHub Flavored Markdown extensions. This makes it much more powerful while keeping the same simple workflow!

Much better than our old custom parser, right? 😉