ngx-markdown: Get your markdown displayed in your Angular application
The GitHub project ngx-markdown is an Angular tool that makes integrating markdown into your Angular applications a walk in the park. This article delves into its significance, relevance, and how it has been a game-changer for Angular developers in their web development breakthroughs.
Project Overview:
The primary objective of ngx-markdown is to convert markdown files, or strings directly into HTML, within Angular applications. This simplifies the task of displaying markdown in Angular apps, often a challenge for developers. The tool caters to the Angular community, specifically developers who employ markdown in their web applications but struggle with seamless conversion and presentation.
Project Features:
The key features of ngx-markdown are its ability to convert both markdown files and strings to HTML, along with default rendering and ability to handle Angular templateUrl. To illustrate, let's consider a use case where a developer needs to display a readme file within an Angular application. Previously, presenting this markdown file in an appealing way entailed a somewhat complex process. However, with ngx-markdown, the developer only needs to leverage the directives provided by this tool for a simple and efficient solution.
Technology Stack:
Constructed in TypeScript, ngx-markdown leverages Angular's reusable, efficient framework for web application development. It also utilizes marked, a markdown parser and compiler built for speed. Alongside this, it uses raw-loader to enables import of files as a string and file-loader to resolve import/require() on a file into a URL and emits the file into the output directory. These technologies were chosen for their attributes around speed, efficiency and reliability to deliver a seamless application to the end user.
Project Structure and Architecture:
The ngx-markdown project is managed efficiently and organized in various components. The markdown.module component handles imports from Angular's CommonModule, HttpClient and Security modules. The markdown.service manages the core functionality of fetching and translating markdown into HTML. It leverages observables for asynchronous delivery of multiple values and subscribes to http requests.
