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As we've already seen above, Markdown can help provide semantic meaning to your content; and in most cases, it doesn't need to be rendered for you to understand it. This is useful when multiple people are contributing to a file because familiarity with the styling of the output is not required. For example, the contents of the Laravel documentation are contained within a repository on GitHub (laravel/docs). It's completely open for anyone to contribute to it without needing to know about CSS classes or styling that the site will use during rendering. This means that anyone familiar with Markdown can jump right in and start contributing with a minimal amount of blockers.
To render Markdown files, we'll use the league/commonmark package. You can read the full documentation for the package here.
Therefore, to address this issue, a specification named CommonMark was released in 2014. In CommonMark's own words, it's a "strongly defined, highly compatible specification of Markdown". The specification aims to remove ambiguity so that regardless of which CommonMark-compatible script you use to convert Markdown, the output is always the same.