markdownlint
Markdown lint tool (by markdownlint)
vale-styles
Checks for Vale based on popular style guides (by testthedocs)
| markdownlint | vale-styles | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | |
| 1,780 | 45 | |
| 0.9% | - | |
| 6.4 | 0.0 | |
| 9 months ago | about 4 years ago | |
| Ruby | Shell | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
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Docker Build `--replace`
An example of where this can be convenient is when you want to use an external program or project that uses a language that isn't supported by your project. For example, the build process for this blog's content uses Node.js, but consider the case where I wanted to use a Markdown linter defined in Ruby, such as Markdownlint. One option is to add a Ruby installation directly to the definition of the build environment, but this has a few disadvantages:
vale-styles
Posts with mentions or reviews of vale-styles.
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
Besides the official Vale style guides Buildkite, Linode, and Write The Docs have rules online that you can copy into your repo or use as inspiration for your own rules.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing markdownlint and vale-styles you can also consider the following projects:
vale - :pencil: A markup-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind.
proselint - A linter for prose.
Openly - A Vale linter style that aims to replicate Grammarly in an open-source, privacy-friendly way
write-good - Naive linter for English prose
docs - Linode guides and tutorials.
markdownlint - A Node.js style checker and lint tool for Markdown/CommonMark files.
alex - Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing
udoxy - Guidelines and script (bash) for generic standalone code documentation