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This blog uses pulldown-cmark for Markdown parsing and syntect for syntax highlighting.

The Pipeline

  1. Read .md file from posts/ directory
  2. Parse YAML frontmatter (title, date, slug)
  3. Convert Markdown to HTML
  4. Apply syntax highlighting to code blocks
  5. Store both HTML and plain text versions

Code

fn markdown_to_html(markdown: &str) -> String {
    let mut options = Options::empty();
    options.insert(Options::ENABLE_STRIKETHROUGH);
    options.insert(Options::ENABLE_TABLES);
    options.insert(Options::ENABLE_FOOTNOTES);

    let parser = Parser::new_ext(markdown, options);
    // ... syntax highlighting logic
}

Supported Features

  • Bold and italic text
  • inline code and fenced code blocks
  • Links
  • Tables (as shown in other posts)
  • Blockquotes
  • Lists (ordered and unordered)
  • Strikethrough

Frontmatter Format

---
title: My Post Title
date: 2024-12-15
slug: my-post-slug
---