markdown-gfm-pack

Github & Gitlab Flavoured Markdown Essential Pack

Extension pack

GFM Preview

• Markdown Preview GitHub Styling - CSS that makes the preview match GitHub's markdown style.

• Markdown Emoji - Adds :emoji: support to the markdown preview.

• Markdown Checkboxes - Adds - [ ] tasklist support to the markdown preview

• Markdown yaml Preamble - Adds support for rendering the yaml frontmatter as a table. Be sure to set "markdown.previewFrontMatter": "show"

• Markdown Footnotes - Adds [^1] footnote syntax support to VS Code's built-in Markdown preview

• Mermaid Support -Adds Mermaid diagram and flowchart support to VS Code's builtin markdown preview

• PlantUML Support - Rich PlantUML support with markdown integration

• Math Support - TeX math rendering in markdown

Lint & formatting

• Prettier - code formatter

• Markdownlint - Markdown linting and style checking

• Code spell checker - for code and markown

Misc. utils

• Markdown Shortcuts - Handy shortcuts for editing Markdown

• Markdown TOC - Generate TOC (table of contents)

• Excell To Markdown Tables - Copy Excel data and convert to Markdown table format

• docs-images - image compression and resizing

Configuration

• .vscode/settings.json

  {
    "markdown-toc.depthFrom": 2,
    "markdown-toc.depthTo": 3,
    "mdmath.delimiters": "gitlab"
  }
  

• .editorconfig

  [*.{md,txt}]
  max_line_length = 80
  indent_style = space
  indent_size = 2
  trim_trailing_whitespace = false
  

• .prettierrc

  {
    "singleQuote": true,
    "semi": false,
    "proseWrap": "always"
  }
  

Markdownlint

see the configuration section and the rules for more