Basics of Markdown

Markdown is the most popular markup language that can be used to format documents. It can be used to create websites,ebooks,email,chats in discussions forums.

Topics

1. Paragraphs

   MD expects a full line space to show texts in a different line else it joins text in the same line.

2. Text decorations

   MD can write bold texts, italiic italic texts

3. Headings No of #‘s represent the type of heading. Github will automatically add id’s to headings, so the text will be automatically linked.

   This is h2

   This is h3

4. Links

   My Github account.[Bhupendra][1] github repo.

5. Images Images can be used just like links. 

   

   Thumbnails images can also be used which links to larger image

6. Ordered and Unordered Lists

   Coding Best Practices:

   • Keep code DRY
   • Writing Unit Test cases
   • Checking cross-browser support

   Steps to merge branch:

   1. Create a branch from feature
   2. commit your changes
   3. push your changes
   4. raise a pull request

7. Code Blocks

   This is super helpful when posting any code snippet

   const fn = () => alert('some fn')
   

   .hide {
       display:none
   }
   

   Also can show code difference

   var x = 10;
   - const counter = 0;
   + let counter = 0
   

8. Tables

   Tables can be generated with headings and text alignment option

   Stocks	Price
   TCS	230
   YES Bank	500

Cool Tips

• Grammarly extension can eliminate typo and grammar mistakes
• ScreenTOGif to record videos in GIF format
• Upload GIF’s to giphy to embed them into blog posts.
• Stackedit for Markdown Editing in Browser.