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How To Build A Markdown Blog Using Node.js, Express, And MongoDB - Web development simplified

install

npm in express mongoose ejs

npm i --save-dev nodemon

markdown post

• 42'07: render markdown post porperly and use slug instead of post ID.
• import libraries as the following code:

npm i marked slugify

• import marked function in show.ejs:

const { marked } = require("marked");
// destructing is needed

• 52'21 : convert markdown to HTML. Need to sanitize the HTML, so people can run JavaScript on computers.
• render a html inside a ejs, do the following code:

npm i dompurify jsdom