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Markdown, my friend – we have to talk
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stefan judis
September 11, 2018
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@stefanjudis *Markdown, my friend* **We have to talk!**
STEFAN JUDIS @stefanjudis www.stefanjudis.com
[email protected]
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What have these sites in common?
WYSIWYG
“ I don't want to and feel bad setting up
polluted WYSIWYG editors.
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Everything is broken!
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It's a mix of content and presentation
Html
Html
Too flexible Too easy to mess up Mixes content and
looks HTML is the goal
You want to limit the user!
Markdown
# Heading ## Sub-heading Text attributes _italic_, **bold**, `monospace`. Bullet
list: * apples * oranges * pears A [link](http://example.com).  Heading Sub-heading Text attributes italic, bold, monospace. Bullet list: - apple - oranges - pears A link.
Inline <abbr title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</abbr> is supported. Inline HTML is
supported.
“ The key design goal [of markdown] is readability.
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Markdown is not "feature-complete" ("semantical correct" is not a thing)
# Heading And a paragraph...
# Heading And a paragraph... 
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Responsive images
// my-markdown-renderer.js import marked from 'marked' export default (text) =>
marked(text);
// my-markdown-renderer.js import marked from 'marked' const renderer = new
marked.Renderer() export default (text) => marked(text, { renderer });
// my-markdown-renderer.js import marked from 'marked' const renderer = new
marked.Renderer() renderer.image = (href, title, text) => { return `<img src="${href}" srcset="https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w=100 100w, https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w=500 500w, https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w1000 1000w" sizes="(min-width: 900px) 1000px, (max-width: 900px) and (min-width: 400px) 50em" alt="${text}">` } export default (text) => marked(text, { renderer });
// my-markdown-renderer.js import marked from 'marked' const renderer = new
marked.Renderer() renderer.image = (href, title, text) => { return `<img src="${href}" srcset="https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w=100 100w, https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w=500 500w, https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w1000 1000w" sizes="(min-width: 900px) 1000px, (max-width: 900px) and (min-width: 400px) 50em" alt="${text}">` } export default (text) => marked(text, { renderer });
# Heading And a paragraph... 
# Heading And a paragraph...  And a paragraph... 
And a paragraph...
# Heading And a paragraph... ??? And a paragraph... 
And a paragraph...
"Video hack"
// my-markdown-renderer.js import marked from 'marked' const renderer = new
marked.Renderer() renderer.image = (href, title, text) => { return `<img src="${href}" srcset="https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w=100 100w, https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w=500 500w, https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w1000 1000w" sizes="(min-width: 900px) 1000px, (max-width: 900px) and (min-width: 400px) 50em" alt="${text}">` } export default (text) => marked(text, { renderer });
// my-markdown-renderer.js import marked from 'marked' const renderer = new
marked.Renderer() renderer.image = (href, title, text) => { if (/\.mp4$/.test(href)) { return ` <video controls preload="metadata"> <source src="${href}" type="video/mp4"> </video> ` } return `<img src="${href}" srcset="https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w=100 100w, https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w=500 500w, https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w1000 1000w" sizes="(min-width: 900px) 1000px, (max-width: 900px) and (min-width: 400px) 50em" alt="${text}">` } export default (text) => marked(text, { renderer });
// my-markdown-renderer.js import marked from 'marked' const renderer = new
marked.Renderer() renderer.image = (href, title, text) => { if (/\.mp4$/.test(href)) { return ` <video controls preload="metadata"> <source src="${href}" type="video/mp4"> </video> ` } return `<img src="${href}" srcset="https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w=100 100w, https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w=500 500w, https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w1000 1000w" sizes="(min-width: 900px) 1000px, (max-width: 900px) and (min-width: 400px) 50em" alt="${text}">` } export default (text) => marked(text, { renderer });
// my-markdown-renderer.js import marked from 'marked' const renderer = new
marked.Renderer() renderer.image = (href, title, text) => { if (/\.mp4$/.test(href)) { return ` <video controls preload="metadata"> <source src="${href}" type="video/mp4"> </video> ` } return `<img src="${href}" srcset="https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w=100 100w, https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w=500 500w, https: //images.contentful.com/ .../duck.png?w1000 1000w" sizes="(min-width: 900px) 1000px, (max-width: 900px) and (min-width: 400px) 50em" alt="${text}">` } export default (text) => marked(text, { renderer }); Not pretty, but "works"
# Heading And a paragraph...  And a paragraph... 
And a paragraph...
# Heading And a paragraph...  And a paragraph... 
And a paragraph...
# Heading And a paragraph...  And a paragraph... ???
And a paragraph...
# Heading And a paragraph... ???  And a paragraph...
??? And a paragraph...
# Heading And a paragraph... ???  And a paragraph...
??? ??? !!! ??? Duck!
# Heading And a paragraph... ???  And a paragraph...
??? ??? !!! ??? Duck! Markdown is not made for "complex" use cases
Limited functionality Focuses on semantics Easy to grasp
Limited functionality Not powerful enough Editors don't like it HTML
is "allowed"
How can you solve this with Contentful?
www.contentful.com/r/knowledgebase/topics-and-assemblies/
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Duck!
{ "sys": { "contentType": { "sys": { "id": "page" }
} }, "fields": { "title": "Page", "components": [ { "sys": { "contentType": { "sys": { "id": "chart" } } } } ] }, ... }
{ "sys": { "contentType": { "sys": { "id": "page" }
} }, "fields": { "title": "Page", "components": [ { "sys": { "contentType": { "sys": { "id": "chart" } } } } ] }, ... } <Page> <Chart /> ... </Page>
{ "sys": { "contentType": { "sys": { "id": "page" }
} }, "fields": { "title": "Page", "components": [ { "sys": { "contentType": { "sys": { "id": "chart" } } } } ] }, ... } <Page> <Chart /> ... </Page> Structured data is perfect for a component-driven approach!
www.contentful.com/blog/2017/10/11/love-letter-to-component-ready-cms/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i17FKTtIifM&t=408s
MDX
“ MDX is Markdown + JSX, bringing the world of
components to Markdown.
import { Chart } from ' ../components/chart' # Here's a
chart The chart is rendered inside our MDX document. <Chart />
www.docz.site
revealjs.com
jxnblk.com/mdx-deck/
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It's Reveal.js on steroids.
Are these slide made with mdx-deck?
Could this work in Contentful?
Demo
codesandbox.io
www.npmjs.com/package/smooshpack
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Stefan, you're breaking portability!
Yeah, kinda...
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Devs will love it Perfect for docs Component-based
Easy to mess up Not made for publishing Needs file
access Breaks portability easily
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Love it! But it's not suited for our content editing
needs.
A [link](http://example.com).
A [link](http://example.com).
Duck!
Duck! Duck!
Duck! Duck! Duck!
Duck! Duck! Duck! Duck!
Alice! Alice! Alice! Alice!
Alice! Alice! Alice! Alice! That's not possible with hardcoded values.
Back to square one!
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Structured Text
Demo
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www.npmjs.com/package/@contentful/structured-text-html-serializer
www.npmjs.com/package/@contentful/structured-text-html-serializer Serializer will be available for common languages
It supports underline Visual interface Fewer content types
Incoming links support Connected editing flow Platform-portable
www.contentful.com/r/knowledgebase/topics-and-assemblies/
www.contentful.com/r/knowledgebase/topics-and-assemblies/ Topics & Assemblies will still be a thing
Proper content modelling stays important!
So, what about the hover-duck? Duck!
Inline references will be possible Duck!
You can sign up for the alpha today. Talk to
me!
THANKS FOR LISTENING @stefanjudis