Markdown is a simple markup language that allows one to write documents using a text editor and transform those documents into many different formats. Among other things, it works beautifully for documenting source code since the Markdown documents can be checked in and versioned with Git or your source control system of choice.

Some tips

In VS Code, you can use Ctrl-Shift-V to generate a quick preview.

Code is entered by backticks ``

npm install sass

Fenced code blocks (over multiple lines) use three backticks ```

npm install sass
npm install eleventy

Unordered lists are entered with dashes - or asterisks *

  • First
  • Second
  • Third
  • First
  • Second
  • Third

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