Introducing JoliMarkdown, for a more robust and rigorous markdown content

This blog post has been written using Markdown, a simple text syntax for writing structured documents. Markdown is frequently used in the development world (documentation in the form of a markdown README files, adoption by many publishing platforms) and is often also employed for Web publishing. It was, for example, the syntax chosen when the JoliCode website was created in 2012, and is still used today to structure the various bodies of content (blog posts, customer references, technologies, team sheets, etc.).

Section intitulée some-context-and-markdown-historySome context and markdown history

Since its creation in 2004, this syntax has aimed to offer an alternative, faster and more human way of writing HTML documents for Web publishing. Over the ensuing years, Markdown syntax has evolved iteratively, without any formal, perfectly standardized specification. Various variants (or “flavors”) have emerged, but none has become a de facto standard.

One of the most robust alternatives, however, is CommonMark, a Markdown variant that was formally specified in 2014 and has been evolving ever since.

Over the last 12 years, our way of transforming Markdown content into HTML has changed. Back in 2012, we started writing a few articles in pure HTML, then we began using a client-side javascript Markdown pre-processor, and ...
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