Marked

A markdown parsing and rendering library for javascript. docs

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• A CAN note is stored using its AST
  • marked
• Marked does not provide an AST
  • I misunderstood my reading of marked's docs website and believed that it did have an AST. Previously, I planned for CAN to use marked to process markdown input.
• CAN will use marked to process markdown input
  • Marked provides CAN with the flexibility to use its AST in early development while exposing a stand-alone lexer if the parser needs replacing in the future (marked provides a lexer, parser, and renderer for markdown).
• marked provides a lexer, parser, and renderer for markdown
  • The marked library provides a raw -> token[] function (lexer), a token[] -> ast function (parser) and an ast -> html function (renderer).