This is my first blog post using Markdown. This application is built with Next.js, TailwindCSS and Shadcn. The blog posts are stored in Markdown format in the lib/assets/posts directory. To render the blog posts, I am using the marked library. In build time, markdown files are parsed and converted to HTML.

Features

• Easy to write
• Supports formatting
• Can include code snippets

Why Markdown?

It's easy. It's not overly bloated, unlike HTML. Also, as the creator of markdown says,

The overriding design goal for Markdown's formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.