Context

To understand advantages of markdown languages, we should first understand markup language and their limitations. html is the most popular markup language. SGML and and XML are two other popular markup languages.

Either it is markup or markdown we need to have scope for couple of types of text.

text that is content. Think of it like actual text that you read on a screen. media is a special case and we can discuss that later.
text that is required for layout or display related.
text that is meta data. alt text, seo tags etc

to support these markup languages majorly uses tags. the tags themselves contribute to how some text should be displayed. the text between the tags is the actual text that should be shown. the props in the tags generally are used for metadata

learn the basics

learn the basics quickly - https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/markdown/

a good editor for quick preview - https://stackedit.io/app#

react editor for markdown - https://github.com/remarkjs/react-markdown#use-custom-components-syntax-highlight

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