markdownlint
A Node.js style checker and lint tool for Markdown/CommonMark files. (by DavidAnson)
alex
Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing (by get-alex)
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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 2024-02-03.
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Recommended Linters
markdownlint - A Node.js style checker and lint tool for Markdown/CommonMark files.
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Regal v0.14.0 released
Improvements - The prefer-some-in-iteration rule will by default no longer flag iteration where a sub-attribute is used, like input[_].item - The use-in-operator rule has been extended to include more types of items, leading to better discovery of locations where in should be used - Remove replace directive in go.mod that made hard to integrate Regal as a library - The project now uses markdownlint to ensure consistent formatting of its documentation - The Go API now allows reading custom rules from an fs.FS filesystem
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Project idea: port markdownlint to Rust
People are always looking for simple projects to learn Rust with, so here's one for anyone who's currently looking. Port markdownlint to Rust. Markdownlint is ~3.3k lines of JavaScript (including the lint implementation themselves!), so I reckon it's pretty doable.
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VS Code - Catch errors in your markdown files
The markdownlint VS Code extension is powered by the Node library of the same name. Its usage is quite similar to ESLint. It has a set of rules that can be configured, errors are highlighted, and you can automatically fix simple errors.
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10 Best Visual Studio Code Extensions for Flutter Development
There are no compilers in the Flutter project that guarantee to find issues in README.md or CHANGELOG.md files. To remedy this, the Markdownlint plugin provides a set of guidelines to encourage Markdown file standards and uniformity. You can use this extension to check for problems locally and verify the content before publishing it live. Browse the user manual to learn more about rules.
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 2023-07-21.
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Markdown Bot - An AI friend who improves your content
Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing with tools like alex
- 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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What are some alternatives?
When comparing markdownlint and alex you can also consider the following projects:
http-server - a simple zero-configuration command-line http server
torrent - download torrents with node from the CLI
Live Server - A simple development http server with live reload capability.
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remark-lint - plugins to check (lint) markdown code style
David - :eyeglasses: Node.js module that tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
iponmap - commandline IP location finder
license-checker - Check NPM package licenses
ESLint - Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code.
write-good - Naive linter for English prose
yo - CLI tool for running Yeoman generators
kill-tabs - Kill all Chrome tabs to improve performance, decrease battery usage, and save memory