One of my biggest mistakes with this blog was not finding a WordPress plugin that would allow me to write my posts with markdown; to this day I still need to write posts in “Visual” mode and then manually convert the post to HTML for “Text” mode. One of these days I want to convert existing posts to Markdown and then enable a plugin that will convert Markdown to HTML. This painful process made me ask myself: is there a way I can use Node.js JavaScript to convert HTML to Markdown? There is, and it’s called Turndown by Dom Christie.
Convert HTML to Markdown with Node.