What is Markdown?

Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber and Aaron Swartz created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is appealing to human readers in its source code form. when you create a project and upload it to Github and you need to add Readme.MD files to explain more about the project. On Github, you shave seen these types of readme.MD files in most of the projects and this readme.MD files are Markdown files. It is quite easy to create markdown files and for creating first you need to know the basic syntax and how to create one using the vs code.

• It is a lightweight markup language with a plain text formatting syntax.

• Purpose is to make ease of use and make files or projects more readable in format.

• These files are convertible.

while creating markdown you simply see what you put in vs code. you can also certain characters and punctuation marks to format stuff to make it bold or italic add images create lists.

Why do we use markdown?

When it comes to why we use these files who are reading why we put so much effort to create.

• Basic use for readme files for GitHub.
• Documentation markdown is used by GitHub.
• Forum post, blog post.

Here are some of the basic types of formatting you can do with markdown.

• Headings.

• Lists.

• Images.

• Links.

• Emphasis.

• Blockquotes.

• Horizontal rule.

Before we are going to explore markdown use vs code it's easy to use and make sure to install any extension in vs that provide a real-time preview.

Headings.

#
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Play with text.

*here want you to make italic*

*this is italic* see this difference
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_this also_ italic
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**Learncodeonline** this is strong
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~~Learncodeoffline~~ Learncodeonline

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Blockquote-

> “To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

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“To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Links.

[syntax podcast](https://syntax.fm/)

preview- syntax podcast

List.

• UL

* Has node
* Instagram
* Twitter

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• Hash node
• Instagram
• Twitter

• OL

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Images.

![ ]( )

![LCO.png](LCO.png)

Code blocks

example-

npm install
npm start

Table

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