blackfriday vs mdtopdf

blackfriday

Blackfriday: a markdown processor for Go (by russross)

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mdtopdf

Markdown to PDF (by mandolyte)

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blackfriday		mdtopdf
	Project
4	Mentions	1
5,352	Stars	113
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	8.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	5 months ago
Go	Language	Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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blackfriday

Posts with mentions or reviews of blackfriday. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-01.

I wrote a markdown to html converter
6 projects | /r/golang | 1 Feb 2023

unless this is an exercise in "how to make my own markdown processor" I'd suggest using proven https://github.com/russross/blackfriday
Question about goldmark
2 projects | /r/golang | 2 Dec 2022

Have you looked at other libraries, if this one doesn't have the features you want? For example Black Friday might be more to your liking.
Compounding Competence
4 projects | dev.to | 11 Apr 2021

On the backend when generating the emails: For this, I chose a popular Go markdown library BlackFriday.
Crow: A simple command-line utility (written in Go) that lets you repeat any command when you change certain files.
12 projects | /r/golang | 1 Jan 2021

go: downloading github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.0.1

mdtopdf

Posts with mentions or reviews of mdtopdf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-11.

Compounding Competence
4 projects | dev.to | 11 Apr 2021

Thankfully, I found a Go package (mdtopdf) that already does this, but it used Blackfriday. I then only had to take a few hours to rewrite it using Goldmark to have a base to work from.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing blackfriday and mdtopdf you can also consider the following projects:

goldmark - :trophy: A markdown parser written in Go. Easy to extend, standard(CommonMark) compliant, well structured.

easy-markdown-editor - EasyMDE: A simple, beautiful, and embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor. Delightful editing for beginners and experts alike. Features built-in autosaving and spell checking.

github_flavored_markdown - GitHub Flavored Markdown renderer with fenced code block highlighting, clickable header anchor links.

ODF - Open Document Format (ODF) generator library for Go.

xquery

sh - A shell parser, formatter, and interpreter with bash support; includes shfmt

go-pkg-xmlx

gographviz - Parses the Graphviz DOT language in golang

jsonpath - JSONPath with dot notation generator for golang

go-slugify - Pretty Slug.

goregen - randexp for Go.