I love Markdown. I also love a well-written README? especially if it features ASCII art!
- Bitbucket Markdown Preview
- Bitbucket Markdown Syntax
- Bitbucket Readme Markdown Code
- Bitbucket Readme Markdown For Bullet
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Bitbucket Markdown Preview
Most popular repository providers like GitHub, gitlab and bitbucket are using the readme.md file as a file descriptor. What is markdown? Markdown is a scri p ting language that is very lightweight. It will break in a similar manner to the above (50% of the time), but with the following urls: Overview page links to:./project/src/31.8e/style/markdown.md.
Bitbucket Markdown Syntax
It’s no surprise, then, that all my READMEs on Bitbucket are written in Markdown (I favour the .text extension, but .md, .mkdn, and .markdown all work too). One thing I’ve wanted for a while is syntax highlighting of code blocks in READMEs. As of today, Bitbucket supports this feature, via Python-Markdown’s CodeHilite extension. Now, one can prefix a code block with :::javascript or :::python or whatever:
Bitbucket Readme Markdown Code
Which produces something like:
Others won’t have had a chance to update their READMEs, so I’ll shamelessly plug a few projects which take advantage of this feature:
Bitbucket Readme Markdown For Bullet
As developers, writing documentation is not necessarily one of our passions. But we all appreciate a good README when we come across one. Hopefully this small improvement will encourage some of us to give our neglected READMEs some love and attention.