Power your Blog Post with Markdown ⚡️

Hey friend,

I'm excited to announce that I've started a Youtube channel and recorded two exciting videos. It is currently being edited, but you can subscribe here to be the first to know when it's out. 🥳

Alright, moving on to our weekly Snack. 🍿

Generating a Blog Post using Markdown

Are you interested in creating a blog? Let me show you my process to get some inspiration.

Let's use React Server vs Client components blogpost 👇 as an example.

Currently, I'm storing all my blog posts on my file system in the repo directly. I am okay with this for now but have considered switching to Sanity CMS in the future. I have a folder called posts and store my blog post in a markdown format.​

This works great for my workflow as I am parsing the markdown content and converting it into HTML elements. A single "#" turns into an h1, whereas a "##" transforms into an h2, and so on.

Here is a quick diagram,

Let's review the code for the same, 👩🏽‍💻

Latest Frontend Gossip/News 🤫

​Storybook v7 is here: The highlight from this update is that it has zero config setup for Vite, but it's coming soon for other languages such as Next.js and others.

Frontend Developers Toolbox 🧰

• ​uiGradients: Generate cool gradients for your apps.
• ​Generate Snow Effect: Using this simple script, you can embed snow effect in your app just like I have done here. I would recommend copying the code and giving credit to the site to do this, as you don't want to depend on a 3rd party script.

That's all from me. Have a great day!