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Markdown lint tool (by markdownlint)
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Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing (by get-alex)
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markdownlint | alex | |
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2 | 9 | |
1,554 | 4,570 | |
1.7% | 0.8% | |
0.0 | 6.1 | |
8 days ago | 3 months ago | |
Ruby | JavaScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
markdownlint
Posts with mentions or reviews of markdownlint.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-19.
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Markdown Linting
markdownlint is a node.js markdown linter that is easy to install and easy to customize. It is based on an earlier Ruby tool, also called markdownlint. Both are great, but the Node.js tool is easy to install and easy to customize.
alex
Posts with mentions or reviews of alex.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-20.
- AlexJS: Catch Insensitive, Inconsiderate Writing
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A ChatGPT GitHub Action for Reviewing Text for Potentially Discriminatory Language
This story has been a motivating principle behind my life for a long time, and therefore, whenever I've worked on docs, I've thought about how I could ensure that exclusionary words, even unintentionally, did not make their way into the final copy. During my time at Nexmo, a communications API company, I introduced Alex, an NPM package that helps you identify potentially exclusionary language in your writing, into the CI/CD pipeline for the documentation.
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What external tools do you use in your workflow?
As a philosophy student: Zotero for reference management, the Better BibTeX plugin to auto-generate a .bib file, and two language servers for diagnostics: LTeX for grammar- and spellchecking, and alex for style and sensitivity checking.
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JavaScript library that converts a string to gender-neutral language?
When using it as a lib you can pass a markdown string (https://github.com/get-alex/alex#markdownvalue-config) or raw text string (https://github.com/get-alex/alex#textvalue-config). This will return an object that should contain everything you need to perform a naive replacement.
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Detect Non-Inclusive Language with Retext and Node.js
alex is a lovely command-line tool that takes in text or markdown files and, using retext-equality and retext-profanities, highlights suggestions for improvement. alex checks for gendered work titles, gendered proverbs, ableist language, condescending or intolerant language, profanities, and much more.
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The Actual Mind of the Algorithm (Cortex 132)
Heck, he could even go so far and start using GitHub's automation system (Actions) to run some check on his writing. (Maybe something like alexjs)
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Markdown Linting
alex
What are some alternatives?
When comparing markdownlint and alex you can also consider the following projects:
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proselint - A linter for prose.
ESLint - Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code.
Standard - 🌟 JavaScript Style Guide, with linter & automatic code fixer
iponmap - commandline IP location finder
yo - CLI tool for running Yeoman generators
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